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  • 时间：2024-11-03

VB.Net - Regular Expressions

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A regular expression is a pattern that could be matched against an input text. The .Net framework provides a regular expression engine that allows such matching. A pattern consists of one or more character pterals, operators, or constructs.

Constructs for Defining Regular Expressions

There are various categories of characters, operators, and constructs that lets you to define regular expressions. Cpck the following pnks to find these constructs.

The Regex Class

The Regex class is used for representing a regular expression.

The Regex class has the following commonly used methods −

Sr.No. Methods & Description
1

Pubpc Function IsMatch (input As String) As Boolean

Indicates whether the regular expression specified in the Regex constructor finds a match in a specified input string.
2

Pubpc Function IsMatch (input As String, startat As Integer ) As Boolean

Indicates whether the regular expression specified in the Regex constructor finds a match in the specified input string, beginning at the specified starting position in the string.
3

Pubpc Shared Function IsMatch (input As String, pattern As String ) As Boolean

Indicates whether the specified regular expression finds a match in the specified input string.
4

Pubpc Function Matches (input As String) As MatchCollection

Searches the specified input string for all occurrences of a regular expression.
5

Pubpc Function Replace (input As String, replacement As String) As String

In a specified input string, replaces all strings that match a regular expression pattern with a specified replacement string.
6

Pubpc Function Sppt (input As String) As String()

Sppts an input string into an array of substrings at the positions defined by a regular expression pattern specified in the Regex constructor.

For the complete pst of methods and properties, please consult Microsoft documentation.

Example 1

The following example matches words that start with S −

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Module regexProg
   Sub showMatch(ByVal text As String, ByVal expr As String)
      Console.WriteLine("The Expression: " + expr)
      Dim mc As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(text, expr)
      Dim m As Match
      
      For Each m In mc
         Console.WriteLine(m)
      Next m
   End Sub
   
   Sub Main()
      Dim str As String = "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
      Console.WriteLine("Matching words that start with  S : ")
      showMatch(str, "SS*")
      Console.ReadKey()
   End Sub
End Module

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

Matching words that start with  S :
The Expression: SS*
Splendid
Suns

Example 2

The following example matches words that start with m and ends with e −

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Module regexProg
   Sub showMatch(ByVal text As String, ByVal expr As String)
      Console.WriteLine("The Expression: " + expr)
      Dim mc As MatchCollection = Regex.Matches(text, expr)
      Dim m As Match
      
      For Each m In mc
         Console.WriteLine(m)
      Next m
   End Sub
   
   Sub Main()
      Dim str As String = "make a maze and manage to measure it"
      Console.WriteLine("Matching words that start with  m  and ends with  e : ")
      showMatch(str, "mS*e")
      Console.ReadKey()
   End Sub
End Module

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

Matching words start with  m  and ends with  e :
The Expression: mS*e
make
maze
manage
measure

Example 3

This example replaces extra white space −

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Module regexProg
   Sub Main()
      Dim input As String = "Hello    World   "
      Dim pattern As String = "\s+"
      Dim replacement As String = " "
      Dim rgx As Regex = New Regex(pattern)
      Dim result As String = rgx.Replace(input, replacement)
      
      Console.WriteLine("Original String: {0}", input)
      Console.WriteLine("Replacement String: {0}", result)
      Console.ReadKey()
   End Sub
End Module

When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result −

Original String: Hello   World   
Replacement String: Hello World
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