Regex help

[Techno]

I thought about using string.Replace() which is fine but then I wondered if I should be using Regex instead?

I pretty much want to be able to replace strings giving it the string to look for, if there is a match then to replace it.

Currently this always evaluates to true, but it shouldnt be as you can see:



if (Regex.IsMatch("blahblah", "[me]", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase))
{
//whatever
}



The other thing is, how can I make this:



into:

<someTag=red></someTag>

in Regex?

[sunburnt]

Oooh boy :D


Give this a try:


Regex r = new Regex(
@"\[(?<tag>[A-Za-z]+)=(?<value>[^\]]+)\](?<text>[^\[]*)\[(?<endtag>/[A-Za-z]+)\]"
);

string s = "hello world";

MatchCollection mm = r.Matches(s);
foreach (Match m in mm)
{
Console.WriteLine("<{0}={1}>{2}<{3}>",
m.Groups["tag"].Value,
m.Groups["value"].Value,
m.Groups["text"].Value,
m.Groups["endtag"].Value);
}

[Techno]

lol wow ill give it a shot, but found this seems to work, however your code - I will check right now. This is what I had as a Regex:

\\[fc=.*?]


but afterwards, how can I replace the string with the edited tag?

[Techno]

found it, got it working, almost but still need help.

basically this seems to work:


Match theOpeningFontTagMatch = Regex.Match(theTextToAnalyze, "\\[fc=.*?]", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
if (theOpeningFontTagMatch.Success)
{
string originalMatchValue = theOpeningFontTagMatch.Value;
string removedCode = originalMatchValue.Replace("[fc=", String.Empty);
removedCode = removedCode.Replace("]", String.Empty);
theTextToAnalyze = Regex.Replace(theTextToAnalyze, "\\[fc=.*?]", "<font color=" + removedCode + ">");
}


it works, and does what I want it to but when there are more than 1 [fc=] tag, and after the = there will be a different value, it seems to ignore it and replaces all of them with the first occurence. so if we had:



[fc=red]
[fc=green]
[fc=white]



it would replace them all with red, rather than red, green, white and so on

what am I doing wrong? please help, im almost there! :)