regex to capture multiple groups separated by an initial delimiter

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I have a string like this: ``` |T1| This is some text for the first tag |T2| this is some text for the second tag ``` I need to parse out the tags and the text that is associated with each one. The tags are not known ahead of time but they are delimited by `\|\w+\|`. I know there is something I can do here as far as capturing groups and so on but after messing around in powershell the best I can come up with is to first isolate each pairing using `\|\w+\|.*`with the ExplicitCapture option and then parse out the tag and text from there. But that is doing double the work and totally not super-cool haxor. What's the regex-pro way to do this? Edit: Actually I realize that it's late and I misread my results. The above doesn't actually work so now I don't even have a bad solution.

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``` \|(?\w+)\|(?[^|]*) ``` Matches `|T1| This is some text for the first tag |T2| this is some text for the second tag` into ``` |T1| This is some text for the first tag |T2| this is some text for the second tag ``` EDIT: Use Regex Groups to get parts of match; ``` var tagName = match.Groups["tag"].Value; var text = match.Groups["text"].Value; ``` Swithed to named groups instead of numbered

regex to capture multiple groups separated by an initial delimiter

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