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Regular Expressions Sample

This sample application shows how to use regular expressions. The main form contains one TabControl with three tab pages.

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To run this sample

  • Press F5.

Requirements

A connection to the Internet is required for the screen-scraping feature of the sample.

Demonstrates

This sample application shows how to use regular expressions.The tab pages demonstrate:

  • Basic parsing techniques   This tab page uses the Regex class to find numbers in a string, and valid zip codes, email addresses, and dates.

  • Screen-scraping   This tab shows a more advanced use of regular expressions. You can enter a Web address and view the links or images contained in it. HTML tag attributes are displayed in a ListView control. You can double-click an image to view it, or double-click a link to open Internet Explorer and view the page.

  • Testing   This tab provides a convenient way to experiment with regular expressions. It also demonstrates how to do search and replace and string splitting.

See Also

Reference

Regex

Other Resources

.NET Framework Regular Expressions