Question

So in microsoft visual studio I have a string that is compiled into a regex. My string is “#(\d+(.\d+)?)=(\d+(.\d+)?)”. I cannot compile my program because I get an error saying that \d is a unrecognized escape character. How do I tell it to shut up and let me regex like a pro?

Answer 1

Begin your string with @, that causes the compiler to leave (almost) all characters alone, unescaped (the exception is ", which can be escaped as ""):

@"#(\d+(.\d+)?)=(\d+(.\d+)?"