floppydisk525 / ConsoleEntryValidation

Small Console Application to Parse and Validate Key Strokes for the Console.

ConsoleEntryValidation

Small Console Application to Parse and Validate Key Strokes for the Console.

OVERVIEW

Console appliction that uses REGEX to read string input and determine if it meets a desired pattern such as only alpha characters (A-Z or a-z) or meets a number with or without a decimal.

The program orginially tried to use IndexOf or string.compare, but ran into issues with escape characters "\".

HELPFUL LINKS

This is an excellent link with a nice example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12117024/decimal-number-regular-expression-where-digit-after-decimal-is-optional

https://regex101.com/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4503542/check-for-special-characters-in-a-string
This example has the screen shot in RefMat folder.
var regexItem = new Regex("^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*$");
if(regexItem.IsMatch(YOUR_STRING)){..}