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Can I use regular expressions with String.Replace in C#?

For example I have code below string txt="I have strings like West, and West; and west, and Western."

I would like to replace the word west or West with some other word. But I would like not to replace West in Western.

  1. Can I use regular expression in string.replace? I used inputText.Replace("(\\sWest.\\s)",temp); It dos not work.
Solution

  • No, but you can use the Regex class.

    Code to replace the whole word (rather than part of the word):

    string s = "Go west Life is peaceful there";
s = Regex.Replace(s, @"\bwest\b", "something");