Re: regular expressions

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The hyphen is a special character in a set, you have to escape it:

[a-zA-Z'\-]

Jon Paal wrote:
need to verify a string against reg exp. to allow only characters and apostrophe and hyphen

using :
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Function RegExpValidate(sInput,sPattern) as boolean
Dim RegexObj as Regex = New Regex("regularexpression")
return Regex.IsMatch(sInput,sPattern)
End Function

calling with:
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RegExpValidate(MyString,"[a-zA-Z'-]")

but pattern isn't working. any help ???
.

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