VBScript Regular Expressions
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 by Jeffery Hicks
I seem to find my self turning to regular expressions more often these days, often to help out a fellow scripter in one of the many scripting forums I keep tabs on. I thought I'd take a moment and provide a brief explanation on how to use regular expressions in VBScript. First off, for those who don't know, a regular expression is a way of identifying or matching a string against a pattern. For example we all know that 172.16.100.200 looks like an IP address because of its pattern. The string roygbiv@rainbow.net looks like an email address, again based on the pattern. A regular expression can be used identify strings based on a pattern. More »