C# Regex to match the word with dot

Question

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" is an English-language pangram, alphabet! that is, a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alph

Answer 1

. is a special character in regular expressions. You need to escape it with a slash first:

Regex.Matches(entireText, "alphabet\\.")

The slash ends up being double because \ inside a string must in turn be escaped with another slash.