What's the PHP ereg() equivalent in Visual Basic .NET?
I'm trying to translate this tripcode encoder from PHP to VB.NET
function tripcode($name)
{
if(ereg("(#|!)(.*)", $name, $matches))
{
$cap = $matches[2];
$cap = strtr($cap,"&", "&");
$cap = strtr($cap,",", ",");
$salt = substr($cap."H.",1,2);
$salt = ereg_replace("[^\.-z]",".",$salt);
$salt = strtr($salt,":;<=>?@[\\]^_`","ABCDEFGabcdef");
return "!".substr(crypt($cap,$salt),-10)."";
}
}