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Regular Expressions In C#: 3 Examples You Need To Know
If you’re a beginner software developer then you may have already heard about regular expressions, but you might not have been able to put them into practice yet. No fear! In this article, I’ll walk you through 3 very simple examples of regular expressions in C# to get you started with using them.
No — I won’t be doing a deep dive into complex patterns and super wild and fancy things that you can do with regular expressions. Nope. Just some simple C# examples to get you pointed in the right direction!
1 — Regex Starts With
When working with regular expressions in C#, you can easily match strings that start with a specific pattern. This can be useful in scenarios where you need to find or extract strings that have a particular prefix. And yeah — I know you’re probably thinking “Hey Nick, don’t we already have string.StartsWith to use?” — and you’re right! But you can’t use that to match patterns more complex than a string directly.
