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title: "Comments in Regular Expressions"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/18/comments-in-regular-expressions.md"
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published: "2004-03-18T14:03:00"
updated: "2004-03-18T14:03:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Continuing my talk about Regex, it's good to be able to point to Darren , who is making a good point about commenting regular expressions, did you know you can do that? Read: Commenting Regular Expressions with C# and…"
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# Comments in Regular Expressions

By Roy Osherove March 18, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 18, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Continuing my talk about Regex, it's good to be able to point to [Darren](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/DNeimke/archive/2004/03/14/754.aspx) , who is making a good point about commenting regular expressions, did you know you can do that?

Read:

[Commenting Regular Expressions with C# and VB](http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2003/09/23/28740.aspx)
[5 Habits for successful Regular Expressions](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/08/21/regexp.html)

And, yes, there's a whole [RegexBlogs](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/DNeimke/archive/2004/03/14/754.aspx) site, and I'm part of it. Unfortunately, I have been pretty silent on there :(

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