You need to change your code to use .text rather than .value I think. . Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:58 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Getting only numbers instead of values when using regular expression groups in Visual Basic 2008 express Hi all, I have a regular expression in visual basic .net 2008. I am using it to validate the file names of reports I recieve. I want to use groups in regular expressions to extract information from the file name. Whenever I access any item of the groups collection though I can only see a number. I see no names. My regular expression is as follows. (?<fName>\w)+_(?<lName>\w)+\-(\w|\D)+to(\w|\d)+_(?<projectName>\w)+\.xls$ my test string looks like Pranav_Lal-25To30May2008_vita.xls Any one any ideas? I am posting the full source of the test program below. Pranav Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim rString As String = "(?<fName>\w)+_(?<lName>\w)+\-(\w|\D)+to(\w|\d)+_(?<projectName>\w)+\.xls$" Try Dim TestRegex As Regex = New Regex(rString, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase) Dim S As String = "pranav_lal-12To23April2008_veta.xls" Dim M As Match = TestRegex.Match(S) If M.Success Then Console.WriteLine("ok") Else Console.WriteLine("error") End If Dim groups As GroupCollection = M.Groups Console.WriteLine(groups.Item(1).Value) Catch x As ArgumentException Console.WriteLine(x.ToString) End Try Console.WriteLine("Hit <enter> to exit...") Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module __________ View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind