Regular expressions provide a powerful, flexible, and efficient method for processing text. The extensive pattern-matching notation of regular expressions allows you to quickly parse large amounts of text to find specific character patterns; to extract, edit, replace, or delete text substrings; or to add the extracted strings to a collection in order to generate a report. For many applications that deal with strings (such as HTML processing, log file parsing, and HTTP header parsing), regular expressions are an indispensable tool.
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However, it is not enough just search stuff in text format, there are always strong requirement to have an advanced search egine in the Multiple Media, such as image,audio even Video. We have done a Image Match application with VC++ serveral years before, it is very very difficult to find the desired section, which is matched to the source template image, in the destination image.
I am wondering if it is possible we introduce RegEx into Silverlight and take the advantage of Data exchange and comparison in silverlight to make the Multiple Media Search more flexible and more advanced.
Just an imagine, we need more research in the future project.
