Question

I know precisely zilch about regular expressions and figured this was as good an opportunity as any to learn at least the most basic of basics.

How do I do this case-insensitive string replacement in C# using a regular expression?

myString.Replace("/kg", "").Replace("/KG", "");

(Note that the ‘/’ is a literal.)

Answer 1

You can use:

myString = Regex.Replace(myString, "/kg", "", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

If you’re going to do this a lot of times, you could do:

// You can reuse this object
Regex regex = new Regex("/kg", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
myString = regex.Replace(myString, "");

Using (?i:/kg) would make just that bit of a larger regular expression case insensitive – personally I prefer to use RegexOptions to make an option affect the whole pattern.

MSDN has pretty reasonable documentation of .NET regular expressions.