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:

[fc=red][/fc]

into:

<someTag=red></someTag>

in Regex?

[sunburnt]

Oooh boy


Give this a try:

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

string s = "[fc=red]hello world[/fc]";

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!