Question

I have a string that contains this:

value="'+c+'"

and want to use regular expressions to get rid of the single quotes, plus signs, and anything inbetween them:

value=""

here’s what I’m trying:

responseFromServer = Regex.Replace(responseFromServer, @"=""'\+.+?\+'""", "", RegexOptions.Singleline);

solution:

responseFromServer = Regex.Replace(responseFromServer, "'[+].*[+]'", "", RegexOptions.Singleline);

Answer 1

Here is the expression that matches all between the '+ and +' in the given example:

'[+].*[+]'

If you also want to match with look behind and look ahead, you can try:

(?<==")'[+].*[+]'(?=")

which checks for =" before the match and " after the match.

You can also extend this to look for the value name before the =, which I expect changes. Depends on what exactly those value names can contain.