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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:34 PM

.NET Regular Expressions: Regex and Balanced Matching [Ryan Byington]

One of the questions that seems to come up a lot is that someone wants to match balanced parenthesis. Something like the string “(aa (bbb) (bbb) aa)” and they want to match from the beginning parenthesis to the matching end parenthesis. Generally this
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:32 PM

.NET Regular Expressions: how to use RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitspace [Ryan Byington]

The IgnorePatternWhitespace option tells the Regex parser to ignore any spaces or tabs in your expression except if it is in a character class(ie [ ]). At first this may not seem all that useful but it really can increase the readability of a regular
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:10 PM

New Format on the Block [Anthony Moore]

One thing that has not changed much in Whidbey is the set of format strings used by base data types for parsing and formatting. However, there is one new format element supported by the DateTime class that can be very useful if you use the ParseExact
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Monday, March 07, 2005 3:02 PM

How to Work Around Problems Serializing DateTime in XML [Anthony Moore]

I wrote a while ago about problems with the way DateTime worked with features like DataSet, XML Serialization (WebServices) and XmlConvert. Basically, DateTime is always treated as a local time by these XML-based systems, which means that you get incorrect
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:29 PM

Regex hangs with my expression [David Gutierrez]

Well, actually, it doesn't hang. It just takes a really really long time, and you haven't waited long enough for it to finish. One of the pitfalls with regular expression is that you can write expressions which don't perform very well. In particular,
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Monday, December 20, 2004 8:19 PM

DateTime Parsing and Formatting with Time Zones [Anthony Moore]

Here is a new DateTim FAQ entry. What is the relationship between DateTime parsing and formatting and the time zone? Before reading below, see this entry for a more practical description of how to using formatting and parsing for the purposes of storing
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Friday, November 12, 2004 6:17 PM

Regular Expression performance [David Gutierrez]

I often get questions about Regex and what the RegexOptions.Compiled flag actually does. There are in fact three different modes that Regex can work in: interpreted (without the compiled flag), compiled on the fly (with the compiled flag), and precompiled
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:20 PM

Kick Off the Blog with a TryParse sample!

Blog Kick-Off with a TryParse Sample
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