Regex and a Social Security #

[Trancedified]

I read up on Regular Expressions, can it handle reading through a string and get a social security # after it sees "SSN:"

So for example, an SSN would look like:

SSN: 5 5 5 - 5 5 - 5 5 5 5


I would like to grab all the underlined numbers and display them like this after I see SSN:

555-55-5555

Any ideas?

Chris

[igorsky]

Hello Trancedified,

Try this :

If Not Regex.IsMatch(TextBox.Text, "^\s*(\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4})\s*$") Then
            TextBox.ForeColor = Color.Red
            
        Else
            TextBox.ForeColor = Color.Black
        End If

Hope this helps

[Trancedified]

Wow cool! Would you happen to know how to do a screen scrape of a desktop application?


(I need a way to extract the social security number, this app doesn't have the copy/paste capabilities, it's very OLD)

Our client has this application open and doesn't want to write down the SSN on a piece of paper and have to re-enter it in another application.


Thanks!

Chris