Help ... String replacement with Regex

[nikesh]

Hi All,

I have a string in following format

abc;h=v8/35bf/3/0/*/k;

In above string I need to replace everything that comes between two ";" (semi colon), moreover the length between these two ";" can vary

I need to replace the above string with...

abc;junk;

Thanks
Nikesh

[TkTech]

I never use Regex for replacment, just parseing. However, the lookup query will be ;*.; which will grab everything between the semicolens.

[millepag]

I agree with TkTech, I wouldn't use regex to do what you want to do. I would do something like this:

private string replace(string value)
{
    string[] valueSplit = value.Split(';');
    valueSplit[1] = "junk";
    return String.Join(";", valueSplit);
}

Anyway, with regex you would do it something like this:

private string replace(string value)
{
    System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(";.*;");
    return regex.Replace(value, ";junk;");
}