Visual Studio Find and Replace Regular Expressions

Question

How do I match a digit in Visual Studio? My first guess: \d is not working for me. I s there a list of special characters in visual studio?

Answer 1

Have you tried [0-9]?

Answer 2

Well, assuming you just need to match literally numbers, you could use a range like [0-9]+

Answer 3

There's a little drop down to the right of the find box that will show you the regular expression notation used in the VS find utility. It's the big arrow pointing to the right.

You can use :z for digits (and make sure you have the regex checkbox checked :).

Answer 4

MSDN says that its :d

Answer 5

According to the MSDN docs for Visual Studio's regular expressions, it's :d.

There's also :z which matches one or more digits, i.e. used to match an integer.

And yes, VS regexes are bizarre.

Answer 6

Download Expresso - It is a good GUI tool for learning - trying regexes ( has C# support with code generation). Here is a link to a table with the VS regex rools