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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio
#100 Test Regular Expressions in Visual Studio
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Find More Regular Expressions
The other functionality built into RegExinator is the ability to search the
Regular Expressions Library from right inside Visual Studio. The Regular
Expression Library (http://www.regexlib.com) is a web site that contains a
plethora of extremely useful regular expressions cataloged by their use. It is
a great resource to know about when trying to figure out a complicated reg-
ular expression. If you wanted to find a regular expression that would match
both United States and European style phone numbers, you would have no
problem finding one in the library. RegExLib also exposes a great set of Web
Services that can be used to search the library; these services are what makes
integration with RegExinator possible.
To search the library using RegExinator, you simply need to click the
RegExLib tab and you will see a simple text box labeled Search. Enter your
search criteria in this text box and click the Run button, and you will then
see the results as shown in Figure 13-26.
Each node in the window is a regular expression that was found in RegEx-
Lib. Below each node are examples of what the regular expression will
match, what it won’t match, and a brief description of the expression. When
Figure 13-26. RegExLib search results
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