Regular Expressions

Overview

A .NET application can use the power of regular expressions out of the box. Regular expressions are a versatile and effective way to process large texts.

Note: Regular expressions require a separate course of their own because of their complexity. This lesson only provides a brief overview.

We can use them to find substrings that match a certain condition, to check whether a string object conforms to our rules (correct phone number format, for instance), and so on. At the same time, with regex (regular expressions), we need far less code to address these ...