Question

I’ve designed a multilingual web site and some values in database have a tag which will be replaced with it’s language value, remove tags brackets ( in case {} ) or removed completely.

There are two cases:

Remove brackets:

value {mm} >> value mm

Remove completely:

value {mm} >> value

Also {tag} could be any length and can contain –

Can anybody help me with regex?

Answer 1

Here is some code you might find useful. For many many more options, see Regular-expressions.info.

All code Using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

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Remove all occurrences of {mm} (and only mm):

Regex.Replace(myString, "{mm}", String.Empty, RegexOptions.None);

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Replace all occurrences of {mm} (and only mm) with mm:

Regex.Replace(myString, "{mm}", "mm", RegexOptions.None);

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Remove all occurrences of {any-characters}:

Regex.Replace(myString, @"{[\-a-z]*}", String.Empty, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

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Replace all occurrences of {any-characters} with any-characters:

Regex.Replace(myString, @"{(?<tag>[\-a-z]*)}", "${tag}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);