This is small piece of code snippet which I wanted to share as we face this necessity in our day to day programming. Suppose you have a need when you need to search multiple string, say you need to search strings like “int”, “float”, “string” in a piece of text. Below is how you will achieve it without using any loop and in a simple and straight forward way.
string pattern = "int|float|string"; MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(text, pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
Since the return value is a “MatchCollection”, you can find the index of the matched string and many other properties / methods supported by “Match” type.
Search Multiple Strings Using Regular Expression
And it gets even better if you include b inside your regex:
string pattern = @"bintb|bfloatb|bstringb";
That way you'd match whole words only, other "int" would match "into" or "paint".
Notice the nice use of the @ strings, which avoids the need to escape the characters.
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