Regular Expressions 101

Propertthe literal text Propert (case sensitive)

y?optionally matches the literal y (121₁₀ / 171₈ / 79₁₆) (case sensitive)

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1(\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 2($[^()]+$)

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^()]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Regular Expression

Property?\s+(\w+)\s*(\([^()]+\))

New

Public ReadOnly Property Test(v as String) As Integer
Public ReadOnly Property Test(ByVal v as String) As ReadOnlyCollection(Of Guid)
Public ReadOnly Property Test() As Integer         
Public ReadOnly Property Test() As ReadOnlyCollection(Of Guid)

Regular Expression

Extraction