Question

I have the regex:

TheComment = Regex.Replace(TheComment, "(\\@" + r + "\b)", "<span style=\"background:yellow;font-weight:bold;\">@" + ThisUser.Username + "</span>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

This is an example pattern

(\\@to\b)

I want this to match @To but not @Tom. At the moment it’s not matching, if I strip the \b away it works but it matches @Tom as well which is musn’t.

Answer 1

You have to escape \ and not @. Plus, you got to move \b out of the selection.

@"(@" + r + @")\b"