Category Archives: Regular Expressions

Here’s how you can read a CSV file using Regular Expressions in .Net: </p> public static DataTable GetDataTableFromCsvFile(string file) { // Where the CSV data goes DataTable dt = new DataTable("CsvData"); // The pattern used to parse the CSV const … Continue reading →

Ever want to match and replace whole words with in a string?  Regular expressions (System.Text.RegularExpressions) makes it a one line operation: Regex.Replace(inputText, @"\b" + wordToReplace + @"\b", replacementText, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); This pattern uses “word boundries” as your delimiters for matching text.

Ahh, the power (and sometimes slight confusion) of regular expressions.  This seems to work well to remove HTML from text: string htmlstring = { some chunk o html infested text }; Regex cleanOutHtml =     new Regex(@”