Regex Special Characters

[crazyboybert]

Hi All

This problem was raised in this forum in thread855-493222 but didnt seem to be addressed. I have a regex for say stripping attributes from tags something like..

Regex rxStriptAttributes = new Regex(&quot;(<\w+)[^>](>)&quot;

all well and good as far as the regex doing the job. When i try and build this in VS.NET i get the error

&quot;Unrecognized Escape Sequence&quot;

caused by the regex special character '\w' as VS is obviously looking for a string escape not a regex special character. Now i can replace '\w' in this case with [a-zA-Z] but what if i wished to use \b or \n for a multiline match.....

Whats going on here - all the examples i see anywhere describe the use of special charcters in this way and none mention compilation problems. I am using all the correct namespaces and the code builds and runs fine if the '\w' is replaced. Is this VS 'bug' or am i missing something here?

Cheers

Rob

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