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So that's all there was to it! &nbsp;Once I went back and read the MSDN docs, it made perfect sense. &nbsp;I guess I just needed to see it one time.<br />
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JamesNT
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So that's all there was to it!  Once I went back and read the MSDN docs, it made perfect sense.  I guess I just needed to see it one time.

JamesNT

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I have the following string:<br />
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DMG*D8*19481101*M~NM1*PR*2<wbr />*EDS/MEDIC<wbr />AID*****PI<wbr />*DNC00~<br />
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I need to find certain matches of that string. &nbsp;Here is what I have tried:<br />
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string sPattern = @&quot;DMG\*D8%~NM1\*PR\*2\*%PI<wbr />\*DNC00~&quot;;<wbr /><br />
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The issue is that, for example, the 19481101 could be a different number. &nbsp;I don't care about that, nor do I care about the EDS/MEDICAID. &nbsp;Those parts can change and it's fine. &nbsp;In my pattern above, the parts I don't care about are denoted by a % (I realize its not legal in C# I'm just using it for illustrative purposes). &nbsp;What I'm attempting to do is match up the parts I have that are literal and tell Regex that the parts denoted by % can by anything, I don't care, just ignore them. &nbsp;By the way, this is all inside a text file (I'm looking for one part out of possible thousands of characters). &nbsp;<br />
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Suggestions?<br />
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JamesNT
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I have the following string:

DMG*D8*19481101*M~NM1*PR*2*EDS/MEDICAID*****PI*DNC00~

I need to find certain matches of that string.  Here is what I have tried:

string sPattern = @"DMG\*D8%~NM1\*PR\*2\*%PI\*DNC00~";

The issue is that, for example, the 19481101 could be a different number.  I don't care about that, nor do I care about the EDS/MEDICAID.  Those parts can change and it's fine.  In my pattern above, the parts I don't care about are denoted by a % (I realize its not legal in C# I'm just using it for illustrative purposes).  What I'm attempting to do is match up the parts I have that are literal and tell Regex that the parts denoted by % can by anything, I don't care, just ignore them.  By the way, this is all inside a text file (I'm looking for one part out of possible thousands of characters).  

Suggestions?

JamesNT

Regular Expressions in C#

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.