need help with regular expression

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i need help with regex....
i am searching for a drug name from a drug data base..whenever i give a input i need to fetch the related drugs from the database...

for ex if i give "para tabs" as input i want all the drugs starting with "para" and have "tabs " in their name..
ex---paracetamol 500 mg tabs
parafin 2mg tabs

am very poor in regex...plz help me out...

thanks in advance

Posted 5-May-11 23:58pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-05-06T00:11:00

Solution 1

Try:

public static Regex regex = new Regex("para.*tabs.*", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase |
                                                      RegexOptions.CultureInvariant |
                                                      RegexOptions.Compiled);

Get a copy of Expresso[^] - it's free, and it examines and generates Regular expressions. It really helps and I wish I'd written it.

Posted 6-May-11 0:11am

OriginalGriff

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tolw 6-May-11 6:57am

Thanks for the Expresso link. I wish I had it sooner :) Have a 5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-May-11 10:43am

Looks correct; my 5.
--SA