B4J Code Snippet Tiny Regex tip

stevel05 said:

One danger to be aware of using it like this is that if there are not enough elements in the string you are splitting you will get an array index out of bounds error, as you can't check the resulting length before trying to access it.

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    Dim someString = "one,two,three" As String
    Dim s As String = Regex.Split(",",someString)(Regex.Split(",",someString).Length-1)
    Log(s)

there are 12 characters with special meanings: the backslash \, the caret ^, the dollar sign $, the period or dot ., the vertical bar or pipe symbol |, the question mark?, the asterisk or star *, the plus sign +, the opening parenthesis (, the closing parenthesis ), and the opening square bracket [, the opening curly brace {, These special characters are often called "metacharacters".

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derez said:

Special characters need an escape ("\") before them to work in regex:

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