[RESOLVED] Questions on parse operations

Not sure if they are called operations but here is the deal. I wrote some code.. it works perfectly - now some of the code I hijacks from coding forums. here is the code..

Code:

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            string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(GameRef.GetDocumentsDirectory + @"\My Documents\My Games\RPGBXL");
            string dir = GameRef.GetDocumentsDirectory + @"\My Documents\My Games\RPGBXL";

            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                FileInfo f = new FileInfo(file);
                if (f.Extension == ".xml")
                {
                    //parses out that huge Directory address!
                    string filename = Regex.Match(file, @"[^\\]*$").Value;
                    FilesToLoad.Add(filename);
                }
            }

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this line here

Code:

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string filename = Regex.Match(file, @"[^\\]*$").Value;

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I don't know how it works... it works perfectly! And I know it parsing that huge directory string to make it smaller but what do these things mean?:

^ , \\ , *$ - I have no idea what those are doing

regular expressions are what they are. They are a highly tuned way of parsing and finding data. Here is a helpful link: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

Have fun with it!

Awesome THANKS!!!