Regex and VB6

[Techno]

So I am trying to convert this from VB6 into C# but cannot figure out the Regex in C#.

if theData Like "[*]??????????????8" then
...

so in C#, what would the regex be?

I tried:
[*]??8

but this returns true even if it does not end in "8"

sure, could use the "string" way (get the last char and see if it is an 8 or use IndexOf) but that is not the best way and rather have Regex only.

Thanks

[ThomasJohnsen]

if (Regex.IsMatch(theData, "\\*.{14}8")) { //... }

should do the trick.
There are various additions like ^$ for beginning/end of string (singleline option), or grouping that could be used, but for this example, the base matching of asterisk following by 14 of any single char followed by 8, should be adequate.

Tom