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Browse All TopicsHello everyone,
Can anyone give me some hints on writing a VB.NET function in .NET that will receive an argument as a string (the string is a text file's data that has been read in previously), and
will parse for something such as _XYZsomething here_XYZ (using a regular expression) and return the string something here?
Thank you.
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by: topsailnetPosted on 2005-04-12 at 20:35:34ID: 13769102
This will give you some place to start
t.aspx
Private Function parseRegEx(ByVal stringToParse As String) As String
Dim stringToFind As Regex = New Regex(" put your expression here ")
If InStr(stringToParse, stringToFind.ToString) Then
Return stringToFind.ToString
Else
Return "String not found"
End If
End Function
You can get some help building your regex expression at
http://regexlib.com/Defaul
Harvey