Hi All,
I am a VB 6 programmer who is now trying to learn C#. In doing so, I
am trying to convert some of my VB modules to C#. I routinely user Reg
Expressions in VB and am having some trouble trying to use Regex in
C#. Basically, I have a fixed format text file which I need to
validate prior to using in a program. The validation insures the data
format matches what the program is expecting to find in the file. The
pattern I am trying to match for multiple lines is "^[0-9]{4}.{74}01$"
or IOW, 4 digits at the start of a line, followed by 74 characters,
and ending with a literal "01" at the end of the line. This pattern
works fine in my VB code and it correctly identifies all of the lines
with this pattern. My C# code, on the other hand, finds 0 matches for
the same file.
I'm quite sure I am missing something quite simple but I just can't
see what it is! Can some kind soul please point out where I am going
wrong? I am including the code snippets for my VB app and for the C#
app. BTW, the first several lines of data do NOT contain the matching
data. The data does contain 345 lines of matching data which VB does
find.
VB
Private Sub Command1_Click( )
Const FILENAME As String = "D:\Johnw\Data\ RPLs\V2 RPLs\alldata.rp l"
Dim regx1 As New RegExp
Dim m As Match, mc As MatchCollection , sm As SubMatches
Dim sText As String
Dim fs As New FileSystemObjec t
Dim ts As TextStream
Set ts = fs.OpenTextFile (FILENAME)
sText = ts.ReadAll
With regx1
.Global = True
.MultiLine = True
.Pattern = "^[0-9]{4}.{74}01$"
Set mc = .Execute(sText)
Debug.Print mc.Count
End With
End Sub
C# App
private string ValidateFile(st ring filename)
{
string alltext = new StreamReader
(@"D:\Johnw\Dat a\RPLs\V2 RPLs\alldata.rp l").ReadToEnd() ;
Regex re = new Regex("^[0-9]{4}.{74}01$", RegexOptions.Mu ltiline);
MatchCollection mc = re.Matches(allt ext);
Console.WriteLi ne("Found " + mc.Count.ToStri ng() + " matches");
if ( mc.Count == 0 )
{
return "";
}
return filename;
}
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John Wood a.k.a Mortimer Schnurd
http://www.loosemarbles.com
