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Match Method (String, String)

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Searches the specified input string for the first occurrence of the specified regular expression.

Namespace:  System.Text.RegularExpressions
Assembly:  System.Text.RegularExpressions (in System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function Match ( _
    input As String, _
    pattern As String _
) As Match

public static Match Match(
    string input,
    string pattern
)

public:
static Match^ Match(
    String^ input, 
    String^ pattern
)

static member Match : 
        input:string * 
        pattern:string -> Match 

public static function Match(
    input : String, 
    pattern : String
) : Match

Parameters

Return Value

Type: System.Text.RegularExpressions. . :: . .Match
An object that contains information about the match.

Remarks

The Match(String, String) method returns the first substring that matches a regular expression pattern in an input string.

The static Match(String, String) method is equivalent to constructing a Regex object with the specified regular expression pattern and calling the instance Match(String) method. In this case, the regular expression engine caches the regular expression pattern.

The pattern parameter consists of regular expression language elements that symbolically describe the string to match.

You can determine whether the regular expression pattern has been found in the input string by checking the value of the returned Match object's Success property. If a match is found, the returned Match object's Value property contains the substring from input that matches the regular expression pattern. If no match is found, its value is String..::..Empty.

This method returns the first substring in input that matches the regular expression pattern. You can retrieve subsequent matches by repeatedly calling the returned Match object's Match..::..NextMatch method. You can also retrieve all matches in a single method call by calling the Regex..::..Matches(String, String) method.

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See Also

Reference

Regex Class

Match Overload

System.Text.RegularExpressions Namespace