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user2058186
user2058186

Reputation: 287

IF contains special chars?

Quick question, is there anyway I can modify this statement to include all special characters, i.e. !?&^%$£ etc

If tb.Text.Contains("!") Then
        Score += 25
    End If

I've tried 

If tb.Text.Contains("!"|"?"|"*") Then
        Score += 25
    End If

and

If tb.Text.Contains("!","?","*") Then
        Score += 25
    End If

If there isn't a way I could just write them out individually but i'd prefer to have them within a few lines if possible, thanks for any help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (1)

John C
John C

Reputation: 1981

Take a look at Regular Expressions. You can--carefully, since the "special characters" also often do things in the regular expression, which you need to escape, and I may not have caught them all--have something like

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Dim m As Match = Regex.Match(tb.Text,"(!|\?|&|^|%|\$|£)")

(The pipes, in this case, show alternate things to match. Since you're looking for any of the characters, it's fairly easy except for the aforementioned caveat.)

And then check the value of m.Success.

Upvotes: 1

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