Regular expression to parse .ini files

Regular expression to fetch <key-value> pairs from the old-fashioned .ini files: ((\s)*(?<Key>([^\=^\s^\n]+))[\s^\n]* # key part (surrounding whitespace stripped) \= (\s)*(?<Value>([^\n^\s]+(\n){0,1}))) # value part (surrounding whitespace stripped) Would fetch patterns in form of: webProxyPort=8080 webProxyPort = 8080 webProxyPort = 8080 Key and Value appears in form of named captures with whitespaces stripped on both ends.