Can I test if a regex is valid in C# without throwing exception

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I think exceptions are OK in this case.

Just make sure to shortcircuit and eliminate the exceptions you can:

private static bool IsValidRegex(string pattern)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(pattern)) return false;

    try
    {
        Regex.Match("", pattern);
    }
    catch (ArgumentException)
    {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

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