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AVL - 17 Sep 2007 13:32 GMT
hi,
i'm a new bie to regular expressions..
i'm trying to see if a string ends with teh below
pattern \filename.xls  or \filename.xlsx...

I've used the @"\\[\w|\W]+\.xls" pattern but's it's
matching hte below string
d:\sample\.xls....

can someone help me out with teh correct pattern
Luc E. Mistiaen - 17 Sep 2007 15:54 GMT
Well, your construct [\w|\W] is a bit awkward: anything between the square
bracket will cause a match; because you have \w (word characters) and \W
(non-word characters), you match everything (the | is not needed between
square brackets: it will be matched...)

try something like \\\w+\.xlsx?

> hi,
> i'm a new bie to regular expressions..
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> can someone help me out with teh correct pattern
Kevin Spencer - 19 Sep 2007 12:24 GMT
\\[^?\[\]\/\\=+\<\>:;",*\r\n]+\.xlsx?

The regular expression above does the following for a match:

1. Begins with a backslash
2. Followed by any character not in the list \?[]/\=+<>:;",*\r\n (illegal
Windows file name characters), one or more
3. Followed by ".xls"
4. Followed by 'x' (Zero or 1 time)

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> hi,
> i'm a new bie to regular expressions..
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> can someone help me out with teh correct pattern

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