Util.Match(String, String) Method

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Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath

Assembly:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.dll

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Gets a value that indicates whether the test matches the specified pattern.

public:
 bool Match(System::String ^ bstrValue, System::String ^ bstrPattern);

public bool Match (string bstrValue, string bstrPattern);

abstract member Match : string * string -> bool

Public Function Match (bstrValue As String, bstrPattern As String) As Boolean

Parameters

bstrValue: String

The string to test against the pattern.

bstrPattern: String

The pattern to use.

Returns

Boolean

true if the specified value matches the specified pattern; otherwise false.

Examples

In the following example, the variable isSsnValid is set to a value that indicates whether or not the value stored in the my:SSN node is a legal Social Security Number:

IXMLDOMNode ssnNode = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode(@"//my:SSN");
bool isSsnValid = thisXDocument.Util.<span class="label">Match</span>(ssnNode.text, @"\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\d\d");

Remarks

The Match method can be used to test any string against a regular expression. The regular expression must conform to the W3C's XML Schema specification for regular expressions (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs).

Note: The XML Schema specification for regular expressions is different from regular expressions in Perl.

Applies to

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