Regular Expression Pattern in C#

This is a C# Program to illustrate regular expression pattern.

Problem Description

This C# Program Illustrates Regular Expression Pattern.

Problem Solution

Here the Regex class is used for representing a regular expression and the words that start with the given letter is displayed.

Program/Source Code

Here is source code of the C# Program to Illustrate Regular Expression Pattern. The C# program is successfully compiled and executed with Microsoft Visual Studio. The program output is also shown below.

/*
 * C# Program to Illustrate Regular Expression Pattern
 */
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace Application
{
    class Program
    {
        private static void showMatch(string text, string expr)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("The Expression : " + expr);
            MatchCollection m = Regex.Matches(text, expr);
            foreach (Match m1 in m)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(m1);
            }
        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string str = "Sanfoundry , a high end Technology Training company";
            Console.WriteLine("Matching words that start with 'S': ");
            showMatch(str, @"\bS\S*");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}
Program Explanation

This C# program is used to illustrate regular expression pattern. We have defined a sentence in ‘str’ string variable. Then we are calling the showMatch() procedure by passing the str and expr variable values as an argument.

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The showMatch() procedure is used to find the matching words that start with ‘S’. Here the Regex class is used for representing a regular expression and the words that start with the given letter are displayed.

Runtime Test Cases
 
Matching Words that Starts With 'S' : 
The Expression : \bs\s*
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