I need to process some text using RegEx to change any occurance of a character, period then character to a character, period, space then character. It also needs to ignore a period with a newline, period or space after it.
Eg. This is a test.This is a test => This is a test. This is a test
Also I need to have an option to have the space be a newline character instead.
I'm not sure if I can use RegEx.Replace because I need to include the characters around the period in the result.
RegEx replace char period char
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This is what I have so far but it doesn't seem to be ignoring the characters correctly
public static string FixCharDotChar(string str, bool addNewLine)
{
Regex regex = new Regex(@".\.[^ \n\.]");
foreach (Match match in regex.Matches(str))
{
if (match.Length != 3)
continue;
string strMatch = match.Value;
strMatch = strMatch.Insert(2, (addNewLine ? Environment.NewLine : " "));
str = str.Replace(match.Value, strMatch);
}
return str;
}
You may want to try [source lang="csharp"]\r\n[/source] as your newline. Memory is a bit hazy, but it may help.
Alternatively you could use:
[source lang="csharp"] Environment.NewLine [/source] as you are in your string insertion logic.
http://www.dotnetperls.com/newline
Alternatively you could use:
[source lang="csharp"] Environment.NewLine [/source] as you are in your string insertion logic.
http://www.dotnetperls.com/newline
Works for me
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[edit]
To explain the magic, they're called capture groups. This page does a decent-ish job explaining capture groups (though he focuses on named capture groups (I used unnamed capture groups, hence why I referred to them by their number)).
using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
public class Example
{
public static void Main()
{
string str = "Hello.world. This..is a test.\nso yeah...";
Console.WriteLine(new Regex(@"(.)\.([^\s\.])").Replace(str, "${1}. ${2}"));
}
}
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[edit]
To explain the magic, they're called capture groups. This page does a decent-ish job explaining capture groups (though he focuses on named capture groups (I used unnamed capture groups, hence why I referred to them by their number)).
Using Environment.Newline is still adviced though in C# as new lines could be set to \n\r or \r or \n, the environment one will input the correct one in each circumstance.
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