RegularExpressionType Enumeration

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Provides the fields that represent the regular expression type for string matching.

[Visual Basic]

Public Enum RegularExpressionType As Integer

Remarks

RegularExpressionType enumeration is used by the SearchCriteria class.

Members

Boost	Perl compatible syntax regexp engine provided by the Boost library.
Classic	Basic regular expression syntax based on the regexp library by Henry Spencer. Usually faster than the Boost library engine.

Example

[Visual Basic]

engineSearch = New SearchEngineClass

engineSearch.SearchCriteria.FileName = "*.txt"

engineSearch.SearchCriteria.ContainingText = "search"

engineSearch.SearchCriteria.LookIn = "c:\search folder"

' switch the expression engine to classic regular expression.

engineSearch.SearchCriteria.ContentsExprType = ExpressionType.RegExp

engineSearch.SearchCriteria.RegExprType = RegularExpressionType.Classic

Dim listResult As SearchResultItemList = engineSearch.Start( False )