The Capture, Group and Match classes all have properties such as the Index (position of matched substring) and the length (length of the matched substring). I think that these properties are exactly what you need.
I'd be interested to take a look at your utility when you complete it! You may want to evaluate RegexBuddy to see some of the cool features a Regex engine can provide. On May 11, 2:15 am, Sathyaish <[email protected]> wrote: > For fun, I'm developing a utility that will take an input string and a > regex and will color highlight all matches of the regex in the > original string, alike the Find function in Firefox or IE 8, and some > popular browsers. > > I am using C#. Does any member of the System.Text.RegularExpressions > namespace return the ordinal positions of the matches in the original > string? I also need their lengths. > > Is there a way to get this information?
