How to get resource name from resource assignment

Question

I'm using MPXJ to read mpp file. I have a resource assignment string as below:

string st = [[Resource Assignment task=Sign contract and update data resource=
X.C. Information Management start=Thu Jun 09 08:00:00 ICT 2014 finish=Thu Jun 05 17:
00:00 ICT 2014 duration=32.0h workContour=null]]

I want to get resource name from the above string (X.C. Information Management).
Currently, I use the code:

st.Split('=')[2].Replace(" start", ""); // return X.C. Information Management<br/>

I think use regular expression as well as, howerver, I don't have any ideas to implement it.
Please help me if you can.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use a Regular Expression like this:

resource=(.*)\sstart=

The information would be in the group not in the matched string:

Regex.Match(input, "resource=(.*)\sstart=").Groups[1].Value

Answer 2

If the information you want is wrapped in bold tags (<b> & </b>), and there are no other bold tags in your string, then this regex should work:

(?<=<b>).*(?=<\/b>)

See here

In C#, you could do something like this:

Regex regex = new Regex(@"(?<=<b>).*(?=<\/b>)");
string testString = @"*string st = [[Resource Assignment task=Sign contract and update data resource=<b>X.C. Information Management</b> start=Thu Jun 09 08:00:00 ICT 2014 finish=Thu Jun 05 17:00:00 ICT 2014 duration=32.0h workContour=null]]*";
string text = regex.Match(testString).Value;

And text will equal X.C. Information Management

EDIT: Ok - so the OP removed the <b> tags, but the principle is still very much the same. Just replace the <b> tags with an appropriate marker that you know will come before and after the string you are looking for. For example:

(?<=resource=).*(?=start)

Answer 3

Interesting... it looks like the OP has retrieved a Resource instance from MPXJ, and is using the toString() method of the instance to look at the data, for example:

Project file;
// Some code to read the project

// Retrieve the first resource
Resource resource = file.getResourceByUniqueID(1);
string st = resource.toString();

This is not a great idea... the toString() method is intended to provide debugging information only.

A better approach would be to call a method to retrieve the name directly:

string st = resource.getName();

You can find API documentation for MPXJ here which will give you an idea of the methods available on each object, if you IDE doesn't provide this for you.