Wildcard Functionality

[wavemasta]

I was implementing some wildcard functionality in my application with the Regex class.

If I do something like this:

13.*.*; then it works the way I want. It removes anything beginning with 13.

Now when I try something like:

*.y.*

I get an error "quantifier following nothing" or something like that..

I tried using ^.y.*
I had no such luck.

And I get the same thing if I try

*.*.y

Any ideas to try?

Regards

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Hello.

* is no wildcard in RegEx, have a look at the wikipedia article: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions]Regular expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
You'll find there everything you need.

Bobby

P.s.: .NET does not support POSIX-Classes, use PERL instead.

 

[wavemasta]

I need to do this in .NET, not perl.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

No, I meant the POSIX-Character-Classes which are described in the article (f.e. [:word:]), .NET does not support those, you'll have to use the PERL (f.e. \w) class instead.

Bobby