Helo everyone,

I am new here and today I had my first expression with Regular Expressions. I read for hours and I am trying but my expression doesnt work. I Have a xml that has the rules for extracting some values from a file to show them to thes users (the program is in VB). The file contains this line -->

Delivery: Phone:989909 Country:Blabla Type1        A  1232 Town:BLKAKAKAKK

 Delivery: Phone:898989 Country:Blabla Type2334 B 2223 Town:ujhsuhwuhu jjjhj

 Delivery: Phone:122344 Country:Blabla Type3  C 2222 Town:uhuhuh

 I need the values (not numeric) A,B,C (len = 3) after the Strings Type1,Type2334,Type3 and before the Town String. The four Strings are Const. So I have created the following Regex for the xml-->

<MatchPattern><![CDATA[(?<=Type1|Type2334|Type3\s+).{1,17}\s*.{1,17}\s*)]]></MatchPattern>

?<=Type1|Type2334|Type3\s+).{1,17}\s*.{1,17}\s* 

 It works fine but sometimes I  get the wrong result. Thats because the length of the String is  not allways the same and the spaces are too many... I have no Idea what I can do to solve this problem. I have tried to combine the negative lookahead but it doesnt work -->

<MatchPattern><![CDATA[(?<=Type1|Type2334|Type3\s+).{1,17}\s*.{1,17}\s*(?<!Town\s+)]]></MatchPattern>  (I dont remember right now the syntax for a negativ lookahead).

The result was nothing. I need really Help. Please tell me also if there is a way to ignore spaces. Thank you very Much!  The XML Code follows -->

 <DocFields><ID>DocSeries</ID>

    <fDocTypeID>A</fDocTypeID>

    <FromTop>true</FromTop>

    <StartRow>15</StartRow>

    <StartColumn>1</StartColumn>

    <Width>158</Width>

    <Height>1</Height>

    <MatchPattern><![CDATA[(?<=Type1|Type2334|Type3\s+).{1,17}\s*.{1,17}\s*)]]></MatchPattern>

    <Optional>false</Optional>

  </DocFields>