Regular Expression Library Builder

Regular Expression Library Builder

"Regular Expressions are an immensely powerful tool in a developer's arsenal and the flavour of regexs and the classes surrounding them that are available in the .NET Framework is, in my humble opinion, excellent. One of the most useful methods of all the methods available on all the types in the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace is the static CompileToAssembly method of the Regex class.

The CompileToAssembly method allows you to compile a regex to a standalone assembly ...
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The solution: a "Regular Expression Library". CompileToAssembly came to my rescue. I wrote a tool to quickly allow me to easily add multiple regular expressions to a "Regular Expression Library". I can create new libraries, load and modify existing ones, quickly add, remove, modify regular expressions and then redistribute the "Regular Expression Library" assembly via an auto-update to the application. The "parent" application can get new über-efficient regular expressions and continue working without any user intervention.
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The RegexLibrary builder allows you to:

• Create CLS compliant Regular Expression Libraries - A .NET assembly that contains only regular expressions


• Add multiple regular expressions to a single assembly


• Define individual names, namespaces, regex modifiers, and accessibility levels on a per regex basis


• Reload existing Regular Expression Libraries and add, remove, or modify regular expressions contained within


• Manually set the version number of the assembly to help ensure compatibility with existing versions


• Much, much, more... ;-)

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Now that sounds pretty darn cool. I like the whole comple to assembly idea. I can see using it in just the way described above...

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