OT: [Resolved] help w/ Regular Expressions .net (interesting project here)

[chef 3810]

Hi,

 

I am hoping someone maybe able to help me with my latest MB project.

 

I have been researching the world of Text Mining. It is a scary world, where computers are able to read text and extract information.

 

Companies use this technology to read your twitter and facebook tweets and figure out information about you.

 

However, I am using it to remove excess information from movie descriptions. A Computer speaking sounds better when it says less, but it still has to get the point across, you see.

 

So far, i have been able to extract a great deal of information, however I have come to a cross roads and need to use RegExp.

 

I need to remove this line from my String:

 

 

(/NNP\n  (PERSON Sandra/NNP Bullock/NNP)\n  

 

Where the name "Sandra" and "Bullock" would have to be a wild card.

 

I have tried:

                    For Each match As Match In regex.Matches(paragraph, "(/NNP\n  (PERSON .*/NNP .*/NNP)\n")
                        paragraph = paragraph.Replace(match.Value, " ")
                    Next

However, because the line uses "/" i believe that they are used in Regex to mean something, and therefore causing the code to fail.

 

 

thanks again for any input.

 

Ben

Edited May 12, 2014 by chef

[chef 3810]

Well I got it

 

the answer is to use "\\" when there are "\" in the line of code you wish to find.

 

this little app is going to be really cool!