Question

I have an old perl regex defined like this

my @data = split(/^[0-9]{1,3}\)?\t/m, $CLIP->GetText());

C# doesn’t like the regex and says Unrecognized escape sequence? How can i fix this?

I tried this in C#

Regex rex = new Regex("/^[0-9]{1,3}\)?\t/m");

Answer 1

The problem is \). The easiest way to fix the problem is by changing the string to a verbatim string like this:

Regex rex = new Regex(@"^[0-9]{1,3}\)?\t");

Also, you don’t need the slashes and the trailing m in this case.