Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

Searching Strings with the Match and MatchCollection Classes

The Match class encapsulates information about a Regular Expressions pattern match—including a property to determine if the match was successful, the relative index into the string where the pattern was found (matched), and the matched value. This works by simply constructing a Regex object with the desired pattern and then calling the Regex class's Match method to return a Match object. The success or failure of the match can then be determined by evaluating the Match::Success Boolean property. For situations where a pattern might yield multiple matches, a collection object of type MatchCollection can be acquired via a call to the Regex::Matches method. As you might suspect, the