Regular Expressions - replace

[seantuk]

the solution to this is probably quite simple, but i'm not very good with regular expressions. i have this method

public static string removeString(string target, string before)
{
  return after;//no target in my before
}

how do i use regular expressions to remove all occurences of 'target' from 'before'?

NB - there may be anywhere between zero and infinite occurences of target in before

 

[LFCfan]

Hi,
Is ther a reason why you can't just use myString.Replace(...), rather than messing about with RegExes?

 

[seantuk]

it's slow

i'm in a tight loop

 

[MasterRacker]

There are some examples here:

http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3495511

There is a ton of general RegEx info here:

http://www.regexlib.com/

[sub]Jeff
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[cappmgr]

curious about the times, how many itererations, and occurances of your pattern and what where the times.

string s_output = Regex.Replace(_input,"joe","mary",RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
Marty