July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 39m
English
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Name
Regex
This class handles the creation of regular expressions and pattern matching. Several static methods allow for pattern matching without creating a RegExp object.
Methods
public Regex(stringpattern)public Regex(stringpattern,RegexOptionsoptions)Return a regular expression object based on
pattern, and with the optional mode modifiers,options.public static void CompileToAssembly(RegexCompilationInfo[ ]regexinfos,System.Reflection.AssemblyNameassemblyname)public static void CompileToAssembly(RegexCompilationInfo[ ]regexinfos,System.Reflection.AssemblyNameassemblyname)public static void CompileToAssembly(RegexCompilationInfo[ ]regexinfos,System.Reflection.AssemblyNameassemblyname,System.Reflection.Emit.CustomAttributeBuilder[ ]attributes)public static void CompileToAssembly(RegexCompilationInfo[ ]regexinfos,System.Reflection.AssemblyNameassemblyname,System.Reflection.Emit.CustomAttributeBuilder[ ]attributes,stringresourceFile)Compile one or more
Regexobjects to an assembly. Theregexinfosarray describes the regular expressions to include. The assembly filename isassemblyname. The arrayattributesdefines attributes for the assembly.resourceFileis the name of a Win32 resource file to include in the assembly.public static string Escape(stringstr)Return a string with all regular expression metacharacters, pound characters (
#), and whitespace escaped.public static bool IsMatch(stringinput,stringpattern)public static bool IsMatch(stringinput,stringpattern,RegexOptions ...
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