How to match begin or end of a line using C#'s Regex?

Question

I\'m trying to match this expression:

^COMA1TA2000,.*$

with this text:

# Qualquer linha iniciada por # será ignorada
# Cara         


        

Answer 1

Use File.ReadLines instead of ReadToEnd method and apply regex on each line.

What you're doing now, is reading the entire text as a block of text and MultiLine option sometimes breaks things down (as there are different CRLF characters in different operating systems, and stuff like that).

My suggestion is this:

string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("path to your text file");
Regex regex = new Regex("^pattern$");
foreach (string line in lines)
{
    Match match = regex.Match(line.Trim())
    if (match.Successful)
    {
         // have your match here.
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use RegexOptions.Multiline, like so:

Regex.IsMatch(content, pattern, RegexOptions.Multiline)

Docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regexoptions.aspx

If RegexOptions.Multiline is not set, ^ and $ will match beginning and the end* of the string, not the line like intended.

Answer 3

Or set multiline option in regex (?m): (?m)^COMA1TA2000,.*$