regular expressions metacharacters screening

Question

To find substring I use regEx pattern = "^value\s\w+\s\d+$", where value sometimes contains metacharacters. I just need to know if it is possible to make metacharacters from value not to be interpret as metacharacters?

for example i need to find next string: Value (addInfo) record 15 — Bor1ss, Sep 18 '14 at 17:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '14 at 17:28

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Try:

"^" + RegEx.Escape(value) + @"\s\w+\s\d+$"

answered Sep 18 '14 at 17:28

JoelFan

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Incidentally, you may want to use \s+ instead of \s – JoelFan Sep 18 '14 at 17:29

regular expressions metacharacters screening

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