Re: regexp in .net

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adrianca@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank that was exactly what i need.
Could you recommend any good sites / tutorials for regexp as its an
area im poor at and would like to improve on?

Sorry, I can't recommend anything specific. I learnt it all a long time ago from documentation and examples of Unix sed and Perl, which I think are quite good - but many of their samples are for sed and Perl, obviously, which doesn't make them a very good resource for somebody wanting to use regular expressions in .NET. Two nice (and short) primers are here: http://www.developer.com/lang/article.php/3330231 and here: http://www.futureone.com/~sponge/tutorial/perl/RegexOverview.html , but this is really basic stuff. This is a good book, but it also uses Perl as the programming language around the regular expressions: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/

When you are becoming a little better with regexes, it's probably best if you set yourself some tasks and try to ask about the details - or compare your results to published resources like http://www.regexlib.com/

Finally, of course, for the exact detailed definition of regular expressions in .NET, you should use the MSDN pages: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp


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