How to Remove Alternate/Extra Text (Text within Parenthesis) using VB.NET/C#

How to Remove Text within Brackets/ Braces using VB.NET/C#

Regular expressions come handy when we have this kind of requirement. Regex.Replace method can be used remove the unwanted text

        private static void RemoveTextWithinParens()

        {

            string pattern = @"\([^\(\)]+\)";

            string interesting_string = "SOMETHING (#2) and some more rhing (#3 inside braces)";

            Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

            MatchCollection matches = rgx.Matches(interesting_string);

            string removed_String = rgx.Replace(interesting_string, "");

        }

VB.NET Regular Expression to Check Email Addresses

VB.NET Regular Expression to Validate Email Addresses

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Function IsValid_eMail_Address(ByVal sEmailAdd As String)

Return Regex.IsMatch(sEmailAdd, "[0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z_+])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9}$"

End Function

The above will check for email like sales@dotnetdud.com etc and will reject sample@vbadud.c

Or -@vbadud.cm

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