Question

I have a string “region_2>0” where I want to replace _2 with string.empty using Regex.

My expression is ((_)[^_]*)\w(?=[\s=!><]) which in both Regulator and Expresso gives me _2. However, the code(c#):

Regex.Match(legacyExpression, "((_)[^_]*)\\w(?=[\\s=!><])").Value

gives me “_2>0”, which also causes the replace to be wrong (It returns “region” since removing the whole “_2>0” instead of “_2”. The result I want is “region>0”. Shouldn’t the code and the regex programs give the same results? And how can I get it to work?

(Note the string is not static, it could be in many different forms, but the rule is I want to replace the last _X in the string with string.empty.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I copied your code as is into the new project:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var legacyExpression = "region_2>0";
    var rex = Regex.Match(legacyExpression, "((_)[^_]*)\\w(?=[\\s=!><])").Value;
    Console.WriteLine(rex);
    Console.ReadKey();
}

The output is _2.