Regular Expression Replaces Special Chars With Numbers Instead Of String?
Jun 30, 2010I'm using the following to strip special characters out of a URL:
Dim urlReg As New Regex("[^dw ]")
inurl = urlReg.Replace(inurl, "")
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I'm using the following to strip special characters out of a URL:
Dim urlReg As New Regex("[^dw ]")
inurl = urlReg.Replace(inurl, "")
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I am trying to separate numbers from a string which includes %,/,etc for eg (%2459348?:, or :2434545/%). How can I separate it, in VB.net
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Examples:
123, 4A67, GGG, 767 would be valid.
12333, 78787&*, GH778 would be invalid
fghkjhfdg8797< would be invalid
This is what I have so far, but isn't quite right: ^(?=.*[a-zA-Z0-9][,]).*$
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1.) Upper and lower case letters
2.) The space character
3.) Apostrophe
4.) Comma
5.) Period
6.) Hyphen
Ok - this may seem like a strange request ... but basically I need a regular expression to return a string in between two brackets as described below... String:
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I am trying to use a regular expression to find a certain string within a textbox.
Is it possible to include the equals sign (=) within the regex so it looks for this? When i type the equals sign within the regex it doesn't fnid it any more.
Works when searching this string - "and JobID 816138</Detail>":
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ok, For the moment I have a string() where each element is in the structure of
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View 3 RepliesI want to match whole words for any kinds of strings, my
Text: to happening behitond .to.the to curtains of this .<NET> open <NET> sou<NET>rce project.<NET>
now i have tried this to find "<NET>" (without quotes) the whole word with[code]...
I'm trying to replace all the carriage return characters in a string obtained from a multi line text box in a Windows Form with the string ", <BR>" so that when I use the string in some HTML it displays correctly.
Function Blah(ByVal strInput As String) As String
Dim rexCR As Object
rexCR = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
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I may have a string for example potato in a vb.net application. I want to find all the occurrences of o and convert them to 0, so the desired out is: p0tat0.I know it can be done by the provided string operations but I need a regular expression in my scenario.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to replace all the carriage return characters in a string obtained from a multi line text box in a Windows Form with the string ", <BR>" so that when I use the string in some HTML it displays correctly.
Function Blah(ByVal strInput As String) As String
Dim rexCR As Object
rexCR = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
[code]....
I am trying to write a regular expression string match in vb.net. The condition that I am trying to implement is that the string should contain only alphabets and must contain atleast one letter of both lower and upper case. i.e AAA-fail, aaa-fail, aAaA-pass.
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Using sw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(dbfFile, False, System.Text.Encoding.Default)
while writing to text file. I'm not sure how to read the exact data from the database.
I have encrypted a string to something like this:
1. Asak2$)kla1015QAXKFskfa332aSJ2(Ska@Skljcmcel3p.lq,aowpqaskla2@)Skx.:Pdm^),dfs;
what i want to is convert this string to something like this
2. JXK2LB AP2WXB S1P0XE ZXPA3H X1LAKW DOXPS3
both 1 & 2 the above strings are fictitious (i made them up to make my point clear)
I am trying to make a licensing system for my VB 2010 express application. (2) above will act as a serial key which can be derived from (1) which is an encrypted form of something unique of the client computer.
I will then confirm the (2) from the client.
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Consider the below code (which dynamically creates a dynamic SQL string) Is there a way to further compact string.join, so it does replace("'","''") on all array members automagically ? (without writing a custom version)
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Regular Expression to count per words and characters in VB.Net. Here's my codes.
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I'm trying to create a regex which will match either one of the following [code] This regex is supposed to return all and any form of the function that is used.If match string were - FVAL(A,"B")+5 then match group should be FVAL(A,"B")
View 1 RepliesI have the following regular expression for validating a file name:
^(([a-zA-Z]:|))?(((.)|(..)|(. %5D">^/:*?"|<>. |([^/:*?"|<>][^/:*?"|<>. ]))?))). %5D">^/:*?"|<>. |([^/:*?"|<>]*[^/:*?"|<>. ]))?$
I can get it to work in VB.NET but not C#. I can't figure out why it works in one but not the other.
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As far as I can tell the patterns are identical in both languages with escaping. When I run the VB code I get a match. When I run the C# code I get nothing.
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Maybe I am over-optimising this, but I want to know if this can be made more efficient?