using System;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

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//Created by: M. Hassan

//Last Update: july, 30, 2016

//Regular expression to Parse string including non printable characters

//to capture segments of: FirstName,LastName,UserId,Password ,Date

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

          var c = new ConfigParser();

           string pw = "fg%|uy|" + '\x11' +'\x14' + "|hj" +'\x18' +"khg";

           var text = Generate(pw);

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          Console.WriteLine("note: Password include non pintable characters and the separator |");

          c.Parse(text);         

          Console.WriteLine("firstname: {0}", c.FirstName);

          Console.WriteLine("lastname:  {0}", c.LastName);

          Console.WriteLine("UserId:    {0}", c.UserId);

          Console.WriteLine("Password:  {0}", c.Password);

          Console.WriteLine("date:      {0}", c.Date);

    }

     public   static string Generate(string password)

        {

            string text = string.Format(@"FirstName=Elmer|LastName=Fudd|UserId=EFudd|Password={0}|Date=7/29/2016", password);

            return text;

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        }

}

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    class ConfigParser

    {

        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        public string LastName { get; set; }

        public string UserId { get; set; }

        public string Password { get; set; }

        public string Date { get; set; }

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        public ConfigParser(string text)

        {

            Parse(text);

        }

        public ConfigParser()

        {

        }

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        private static string pattern = @"

^FirstName=(?<firstname>\w+)    \|

LastName=(?<lastname>\w+)       \|

UserId=(?<userid>\w+)           \|

Password=(?<pasword>.+)         \|

Date=(?<date>.+)$               

";

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        private Regex regex = new Regex(pattern,

               RegexOptions.Singleline

               | RegexOptions.ExplicitCapture

               | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant

               | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace

               | RegexOptions.Compiled

               );

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        public void Parse(string text)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("text: {0}",text);

            Match m = regex.Match(text);

            FirstName = m.Groups["firstname"].ToString();

            LastName = m.Groups["lastname"].ToString();

            UserId = m.Groups["userid"].ToString();

            Password = m.Groups["pasword"].ToString();

            Date = m.Groups["date"].ToString();

        }

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    }

​

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