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Regular Expression to Grab a ClassName from a C# Code File


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The expression inside the parenthesis indicates a positive lookbehind. It will match any occurance of the literal "class".
The two slash s's represent an occurance of spaces following class and then any non space characters. These capture the name of the class.


  1. (?<=class\s)\s*\S*

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