Regular expressions.....

[Peter Smith]

I am writing some validations code to make sure that date string data has
only two "/" characters in a string. Order of appearance of "/" is
irrespective.

How to write a regular expressions code to validate that a given string has
only two "/" in a given string. .Net 1.1.

Thanks,

Smith

[Zoury]

Hi Peter ! :O)

Do you really need a regular expression ?
There many ways to perform this test... here's three of them including a
Regex solution.. :
'***
Dim s As String = "my / test / string"
Console.WriteLine(s.Split("/").Length - 1 = 2)
Console.WriteLine(s.Length - s.Replace("/", "").Length = 2)
Console.WriteLine(Regex.IsMatch(s, "^([^/]*)/{1}([^/]*)/{1}([^/]*)$"))
'***

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I am writing some validations code to make sure that date string data has
only two "/" characters in a string. Order of appearance of "/" is
irrespective.

How to write a regular expressions code to validate that a given string has only two "/" in a given string. .Net 1.1.

Thanks,

Smith

[Tom Shelton]

In article <uI**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>, Peter Smith wrote:

I am writing some validations code to make sure that date string data has
only two "/" characters in a string. Order of appearance of "/" is
irrespective.

How to write a regular expressions code to validate that a given string has
only two "/" in a given string. .Net 1.1.

Thanks,

Smith

You could just use DateTime.ParseExact with your needed format.

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Tom Shelton [MVP]