Match Meta Characters between strings( Regular Expressions)

[abhinish]

Hi! need some help guys i want to match strings as whole words through regular expressions which contain meta characters. i tried the Regex.Escape method which "Guffa" suggested me .. it works good and don't throw any exception but it do not match the whole word also. m i again missing some thing.. here is my code:

public bool sSearchWholeWord()
{
string sSearchWord="***SPAM***";

   string content="hi this is \*\*\*SPAM\*\*\* testing";

string pattern =  @"\\b" + Regex.Escape(sSearchWord) + @"\\b";			       


   Regex re =new Regex(pattern,RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);
	try			
            {			
              if(re.IsMatch(content))				
              {					
               return true;
              }
          else				
             {					
             return false;				
              }                        
            }                        
           catch(Exception e)			
            {				
               Response.Write(e.ToString());				
               return false;			
             }                
     }

this returns false but according to me it should return true also if i remove these meta charaters it returns true.. i dont know what m i missing or is there any other way of matching these meta characters? abhinav

abhinav

[leppie]

abhinish wrote:

string pattern = @"\b" + Regex.Escape(sSearchWord) + @"\b";

Remove the 'word boundry' qualifiers. If you really need to check for a word, wrap specify spaces around the match and do explicit capture.

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