C# Regular Expression - find groups in text with a separator

Question

I have the following text

"a|mother" "b|father"

I want to find via Regex, groups of text that starts with '"' and ends with '"' and separate with '|' without spaces. Meaning the results would be:

1. "a|mother"
2. "b|father"

I try to use other posts to solve my question but still with no luck how can I find the |? and how can I find my pattern without spaces?

Answer 1

Something like this:

  String source = "\"a|mother\" \"b|father\"";

  var result = Regex
    .Matches(source, "\"[^\"]*[^ ]\\|[^ ][^\"]*\"")
    .OfType<Match>();

  Console.Write(String.Join(Environment.NewLine, result));

Output is

"a|mother"
"b|father"