Backport remarks/examples for System.Text.RegularExpressions

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#12,869 opened on Jul 7, 2026 0 comments 1 reaction 2 assignees View on GitHub

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https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/127038 backported the docs for System.Text.RegEx to the dotnet/runtime repo, but it seems that some remarks and examples weren't ported - for example, see https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/pull/12848#issuecomment-4898840965.

Related to #10722.

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