Check format of text entered in textbox

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I want to check text entered in textbox on button click.

The Format Should be like this XXXX-XXXX(2012-2013).

thx in advance ....

Posted 22-Feb-12 23:03pm

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Posted 22-Feb-12 23:12pm

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ProEnggSoft · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22T23:23:00

You can use MaskedTextBox for this purpose

You can find the various mask characters and help on MaskedTextBox here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.maskedtextbox.mask.aspx[^]

Other option is to check with regular expressions like this

C#

Regex.IsMatch(TextBox1.Text,@"[A-Z]{4}\-[A-Z]{4}\(2012\-2013\)")

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