regular expression playername search

[bulldogg]

first of all will this expression (\\[RDC\\]) find any string with [RDC] in it?

and second is what code can i use to check playernames on join to see if they contain the required expression?

so any playername beginning with [RDC] as an example

BD

[Eagle]

I prefer using the @ sign to preceed strings to avoid having to type double backslashes in regular expressions, those things are allready hard to read so I'll give you an example of what you want as such:


using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
...

private bool IsRdcMember(string playerName) {
 return new Regex(@"^\[RDC\]").IsMatch(playerName);
}


Note that the inclusion of the ^ (caret) makes sure that only strings beginning with the tag are matched, wihout it would match strings containg that tag anywhere

[bulldogg]

ah cool so the retured value would be true false, so if IsRdcMember = True? or = 1?

[Eagle]

C# is a strongly typed language and therefor booleans can only be true or false, 1 per definition is an integer value and can't be assigned to or compared with a boolean value. To evaluate the result you could simply do the following:


if(IsRdcMember(playerName)) {
//Do something with RDC member
}