Generate value from Regular Expression

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Hi
How do I generate a string from a regular expression? RedGate are able to do this so I know it's posible just not sure how.

Basically I want to be able to provide

\w{10}

and I will get a 10 character string back

or

\d{13}

and get a 13 digit string back.

Thanks in advance

Posted 23-Aug-11 20:49pm

Gordon Beeming

Updated 23-Aug-11 22:17pm

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Prerak Patel 24-Aug-11 2:54am

Not clear what you mean by - generate a string form regular expression.

Gordon Beeming 24-Aug-11 4:18am

please see my updated question

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*dan!sh* · Answer 1 · 2011-08-23T21:02:00

Solution 1

Regex.Matches method?

Update: This is not a correct requirement. Consider you have a regular expression "\w". Now there are more than a million number of strings that match to this expression. If not the entire string, then parts of it will.

Posted 23-Aug-11 21:02pm

dan!sh

Updated 24-Aug-11 22:11pm

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Gordon Beeming 24-Aug-11 4:18am

I'm not looking to match an expression in text but to generate the text off a regular expression

lukeer 24-Aug-11 4:55am

The resulting string should be totally random within the limits the regex provides?

Gordon Beeming 25-Aug-11 3:19am

please explain more, when I type Regex.Matches it asks for an input which isn't really what I need here

dan!sh 25-Aug-11 4:11am

Updated the reply.