Hi,

I'm trying to do some parsing that will be easier using regular expressions.

The input is an array (or enumeration) of bytes.

I don't want to convert the bytes to chars for the following reasons:

1. Computation efficiency
2. Memory consumption efficiency
3. Some non-printable bytes might be complex to convert to chars. Not all the bytes are printable.

So I can't use Regex.

The only solution I know, is using Boost.Regex (which works on bytes - C chars), but this is a C++ library that wrapping using C++/CLI will take considerable work.

How can I use regular expressions on bytes in .NET directly, without working with .NET strings and chars?

Thank you.