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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- 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.