How to prevent multi match with regex only betwen [ ]-CodePudding

I have an exeption in a regex. With this regex

I can match all data (key:value) from a string separate by , . Problem I have a conflict with some List who is formatted like that

Mylist:[data1, data2, data3]

With this regex (?<=(?<!: *)\[).*?(?=, )|(?<=, (?=[^ \r\n]))(?:.*?(?=, )|[^\r\n\[\]] ?(?=\])|[^\r\n] \](?= *\]))

I have 3 match

match 1 = Mylist:[data1
match 2 = data2
match 3 = data3]

I search for this exeption, when I have [ ] , to have in output Mylist:[data1, data2, data3]

I don't know if it's possible. here is an exemple of complet input format

MyString=[XXXXXX:XX   XX   XX   XX, XXXXX:332.83, XXXXX:XXX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX, XXXX:0.0, XXXX:2, XXXX:0, XXXX:-256, XXXX:5, XXXX:136935, XXXX:0, XXXX:XX XXX XXX, XXXX:0.5, XXXXX:true, XXXX:0.509375, XXX:0.0, 2022-09-17,XXXXX:1, list1:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29], list2:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29], ]

I search to have

match 1 = XXXXXX:XX   XX   XX   XX
match 2 = XXXXX:332.83
...
match x =2022-09-17,XXXXX:1
match y =list1:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29]
match z =list2:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29]

CodePudding user response：

You have two options:

Firstly try something like this :

List<String> listString = [];
                String MyString =
                    "[XXXXXX:XX   XX   XX   XX, XXXXX:332.83, XXXXX:XXX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX, XXXX:0.0, XXXX:2, XXXX:0, XXXX:-256, XXXX:5, XXXX:136935, XXXX:0, XXXX:XX XXX XXX, XXXX:0.5, XXXXX:true, XXXX:0.509375, XXX:0.0, 2022-09-17,XXXXX:1, list1:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29], list2:[2000-00-00 00:00, 2022-11-16 15:29, 2022-11-16 15:29], ]";
                String newString = MyString.substring(1, MyString.length - 1);
                bool save = true;
                int start = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < newString.length; i  ) {
                  if (newString[i] == "," && save) {
                    listeString.add(newString.substring(start, i));
                    start = i   1;
                  } else if (newString[i] == "[") {
                    save = false;
                  } else if (newString[i] == "]") {
                    save = true;
                  }
                }

When you create your string, you replace your "," in your lists with a special character that you can easily change.

Have a good day