将字符串拆分为以前缀开头的子字符串

Question

I'm looking to split a string into substrings and each of the substrings starts and ends with [[ ]]

eg

I've only used a dash and colon as examples - it could be anything including space or no space. I'm just looking to get each of the substrings including the square brackets.

string mystring = "[[string 1]] - [[string 2]] : [[string 3]]"

Can I split this into

[[string 1]]
[[string 2]]
[[string 3]]

A list will do...

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Answer 1

string input = "[[string 1]] - [[string 2]] : [[string 3]]";
var parts = Regex.Matches(input, @"\[\[.+?\]\]").Cast<Match>().Select(x => x.Value)
                 .ToArray();

Answer 2

string input = "[[string 1]][[string 2]][[string 3]]";
input = input.Replace("][","]-[");
List<string> result = input.split('-').ToList();

If you want an array, replace the last line with:

string[] result = input.split('-');