Question

I have a string beginString = "apple|fruitsapple|turnip";

What I want to do is replace just apple with mango, not fruitsapple.

string fixedString = beginString.Replace("apple","mango"); This doesn’t work because it replaces both apple and fruitsapple.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The variation on other answers in LINQ style:

string fixedString = string.Join("|",
                                 beginString
                                    .Split('|')
                                    .Select(s => s != "apple" ? s : "mango"));