Question

Context

I retrieve a list of sites from a database like this:

DashboardEntities dashboardDB = new DashboardEntities();

var sites = dashboardDB.Instances
    .Select(attr => new SiteModel
        {
            server = attr.server,
            pool = attr.pool,
            url = attr.url,
            version = attr.version,
            client = ???
        })
    .ToList();

return sites;

For client, I need to get a substring from the url like this:

String client = "";

Regex rgx = new Regex(@"\.[a-z-./]+");
client = rgx.Replace(attr.url, "");

rgx = new Regex("formation-");
client = rgx.Replace(client, "");

Question

How do this string manipulation with regex into my LINQ query?

Answer 1

According to Guffa and RePierre:

DashboardEntities dashboardDB = new DashboardEntities();

var sites = dashboardDB.Instances
    .Select(attr => new SiteModel
        {
            url = attr.url,
            server = attr.server,
            pool = attr.pool,
            version = attr.version,
            client = attr.url
        })
    .ToList();

sites.ForEach(attr => attr.client = Regex.Replace(attr.client, @"\.[a-z-./]+", "").Replace("formation-", ""));