GUID regex C#

GUID

GUID is an acronym for Globally Unique Identifier and used for resource identification. The term is generally used instead of UUID when working with Microsoft technologies.

GUID regex

Below is a simple regular expression to match a guide in a given string:

new Regex("^(?:\\{{0,1}(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){8}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){12}\\}{0,1})$")

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Example code in C#:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Linq;
using System;
                    
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        // Validate GUID
        Regex validateGuidRegex = new Regex("^(?:\\{{0,1}(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){8}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){12}\\}{0,1})$");
        Console.WriteLine(validateGuidRegex.IsMatch("{51d52cf1-83c9-4f02-b117-703ecb728b74}"));  // prints True
        
        // Extract GUID from a string
        Regex extractGuidRegex = new Regex("(?:\\{{0,1}(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){8}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){4}-(?:[0-9a-fA-F]){12}\\}{0,1})");
        string [] extracted = extractGuidRegex.Matches("Resource {51d52cf1-83c9-4f02-b117-703ecb728b74} is down")
            .Cast()
            .Select(m => m.Value) 
            .ToArray(); 
        Console.WriteLine(String.Join(",", extracted)); // prints {51d52cf1-83c9-4f02-b117-703ecb728b74}
    }
}

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