Re: regular expressions

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"Jon Paal" <Jon[ nospam ]Paal @ everywhere dot com> schrieb:
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'-]")

\\\
Dim IsMatch As Boolean = _
Regex.IsMatch(<Input>, "^[a-zA-Z'-]*$")
///

You do not need to instantiate 'Regex' because 'IsMatch' is a shared method of the 'Regex' class.

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