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AVL - 15 Jun 2007 16:30 GMT

hi,

i need a regular expression which would match the exact word in a given
string.
for ex

my input is as below and my pattern is .ocx
".docx .DOCM .DOTX .DOTM"

i want only .ocx string to be matched, if any..

currently, it matches docx also....which i dont want...

what is the appripriate regex pattern..

do help out

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Luc E. Mistiaen - 16 Jun 2007 04:32 GMT

dot (.) matches everything, so use "[.]ocx" instead of of ".ocx" (variants:
"\\.ocx" or @"\.ocx").

/LM

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