What would be the Regex to match a word wrapped in double brackets

Question

I am trying to find the correct regex syntax for matching and splitting on a word that is surrounded by double brackets.

const string originalString = "I love to [[verb]] while I [[verb]].";

I tried

var arrayOfStrings = Regex.Split(originalString,@"\[\[(.+)\]\]");

But it did not work correctly. I don't know what I am doing wrong

I would like the arrayOfStrings to come out like so

arrayOfStrings[0] = "I love to "
arrayOfStrings[1] = "[[verb]]"
arrayOfStrings[2] = " while I "
arrayOfStrings[3] = "[[verb]]"
arrayOfStrings[4] = "."

Answer 1

I think that is what you need.

string input = "I love to [[verb]] while I [[verb]].";
string pattern = @"(\[\[.+?\]\])";

string[] matches = Regex.Split( input, pattern );

foreach (string match in matches)
{
    Console.WriteLine(match);
}