Regular Expression in C#

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Please can someone write me a code for checking whether an entered string contains invalid characters like (<,>,&,%,",\,/,?,*,|)
If the string contains the above mentioned characters then it should pop –up a message “Please enter valid string”. Or else it should return true.
Please I want this code using Regular expression in C#.
Thanks
Dinesh

Posted 29-Aug-11 1:28am

dinesh_redhawk

Updated 29-Aug-11 5:25am

#realJSOP

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Uday P.Singh 29-Aug-11 7:31am

what you have tried?

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Solution 2

Another point of view:

If you are working in WinForms, you have a 'MaskedTextBox' control that will take care of this very simply: the control has been there since .NET 2.0.

And, it is generally better design, to make 'illegal' characters in a text-entry field to be impossible to enter, in the first place.

Note that the MaskedTextBox does not support multi-lines, and does not raise the AcceptsTabChanged Event.

Posted 29-Aug-11 3:10am

BillWoodruff

Solution 3

Use this expression

XML

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator Display="Dynamic" ID="regvalCheckValidSearchString"
                       CssClass="alert" ControlToValidate="txtQueryName" runat="server" ErrorMessage=""></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

In CS file add

public const string REGULAREXPRESSION_BLACKLIST_CHARACTERS = "[^\\=\\<\\>\\,\$\$\\+\\[\\];\\?\\*\\$%\\^&/\\\\|]*";

regvalCheckValidSearchString.ValidationExpression = AppConstants.REGULAREXPRESSION_BLACKLIST_CHARACTERS;

Posted 29-Aug-11 4:09am

Anuja Pawar Indore

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Simon Bang Terkildsen 29-Aug-11 13:44pm

Just a suggestion, when writing a regex you might want to use a literal string e.g. @"\ not escaped, not necesrry" as it's must easier to read.

Anuja Pawar Indore 30-Aug-11 2:38am

Right agree. Thanks

Solution 4

Why don't you do for yourself...
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Posted 29-Aug-11 20:44pm

the headless nick

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-29T01:37:00

Why drag in all the overhead involved in a regular expression when a simpler method is available? Put this extension method in your code, and you can then iuse it on any string with any invalid character set:

C#

public static class ExtendStrings
{
    public static bool ContainsAny(this string value, string data)
    {
        bool result = false;
        foreach(char c in data)
        {
            if (value.Contains(c)
            {
                result = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}

Usage would be:

C#

if (!myString.ContainsAny("(<,>,&,%,\",\\,/,?,*,|)"))
{
    // string is valid, do something appropriate

}