Parse subtitle file using regex C#

Question

I need to find the number, the in and out timecode points and all lines of the text.

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00:09:48,347 --> 00:09:52,818
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Answer 1

If I were you, I'd step back from a regex-based implementation and look at a state machine, walking through the file line by line. Your format looks simple enough to handle with maybe 20-40 lines of easy-to-understand code, but too complex for a reasonable regex.