regex?

[phoenix]

Hi,

having 2 strings i need to find out if the last letters of the first string
are the first letters of the second one. I can program this easily with
strings by talking larger or smaller groups of letters of both words and
comparing them. Now I was wondering if this somehow was possible with
regular expressions. If so, I think they would make my code a bit easier but
I have no clue where to start with a regex for such a thing. Any ideas?

tia

Yves

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

May I suggest you try to Read The Friendly Manual?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp

This section of the doc includes some examples that may show you if and how
Regex would apply to your situation.

-Dino

 

[phoenix]

I RTFM.

The problem is I can't find anything about partial matching. I assumed it
was implemented in .Net but now I begin to think it isn't. In case it was
not clear what I meant, I was talking about the functionality which is
implemented in packages like Boost
(http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/template_class_ref.htm#partial_matches)

Yves

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

Ahh, pardon me.

I don't recall anything about partial matching. The behavior and capability
of the .NET Regex engine is well documented at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondetailsofregularexpressionbehavior.asp