RE: Visual Basic & RegEx

by "Brett Errington" <brett(at)opensearch.com>

 Date:  Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:35:38 +0800
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 In-Reply-To:  ksbe
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hi

I actually think that it is worth it considering A: you get 3
programming languages, plus heaps of server/client tools, plus heaps of
nice extras; and B: you don't pay much more for it than Photoshop and
that's nowhere near as complex/extensive program; and finally C: VB.Net
is such a huge upgrade really when you think about it and the ability to
use full OOP is great. However it's not worth it I suppose if you
compare it to the fact that you can actually write .Net programs for
free if you have Win2K or WinXP.

Later,
Brett

"Oooooh... they have the Internet on computers now..." - Homer Simpson


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of David Jones
Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 2:22 PM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: RE: Visual Basic & RegEx

You might check around and find an ActiveX or VB extension that adds
RegEx 
functionality to VB. Might be much cheaper than upgrading to VB.net
(even a 
Windows-worshipping programmer friend of mine says the MS .NET
development 
stuff is too expensive.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

>===== Original Message From "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net> =====
>I don't think VB 6 can beyond the usual "tricks", but VB.Net apparently
>does:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q301264&id=Q301
264&S
>D=MSDN#3
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug Dossett" <hwg(at)miscsites.com>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:50 PM
>Subject: Visual Basic & RegEx
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Can some vb expert out there confirm for me that Visual Basic (not
>> vbscript) does not support regular expression pattern matching?
>>
>> I can't find anything that says it does, so just wanting to confirm
this
>> so I can stop looking for something that isn't there.
>>
>> And if it's not supported, is there anything equivalent in visual
basic
>> or am I stuck trying instr/mid tricks?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Doug Dossett
>>

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