Question

Ok so basically I have a string that looks like this

“this is random text [this is random too] [another random text] hey ho [random bar]”

I want the output to be

“this is random text [[this is random too]] [[another random text]] hey ho [[random bar]]”

So basically find every [ and append an [ to it and same for the ]

What would be the best way to do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

So basically find every [ and append an [ to it and same for the ]

Sounds like:

text = text.Replace("[", "[[")
           .Replace("]", "]]");

to me… no need for a regular expression at all.

That is assuming you don’t need to worry about brackets which are already doubled, of course.