quick question on RegEx

[K. Shier]

while writing a RegEx, you implicily name your Groups:

\b(?<month>\d{1,2})/(?<day>\d{1,2})/(?<year>\d{2,4})\b

so, why isn't .Name a property of a
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Group?

more importantly, how can you refer to a Group by name in code?

[Brian Davis]

You can access the names of groups in a Regex through the GetGroupNames
function of the Regex object:

Dim r as New Regex("\b(?<month>\d{1,2})/(?<day>\d{1,2})/(?<year>\d{2,4})\b")
Dim GroupNames as String() = r.GetGroupNames
Accessing groups by name is accomplished like this:

Dim r as New Regex("\b(?<month>\d{1,2})/(?<day>\d{1,2})/(?<year>\d{2,4})\b")
Dim m as Match = r.Match("Today is 08/26/2003.")
Dim y as String = m.Groups("year").Value
Brian Davis
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while writing a RegEx, you implicily name your Groups:

\b(?<month>\d{1,2})/(?<day>\d{1,2})/(?<year>\d{2,4})\b

so, why isn't .Name a property of a
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegEx.Group?

more importantly, how can you refer to a Group by name in code?