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Regex help, modifying the value before doing the replacement

Hello,

I have a regex and I want to modify the value of a named capture
before doing the regex.Replace.

So something like:

string text = Regex.Replace(o ldText, myRegex, @"<a href="$1">$1</a>",
regexOptions);

Now I want to modify the value of the second $1 just in case it is too
long to display.

This doesn't work, but this is what I want to do somehow!

string text = Regex.Replace(o ldText, myRegex,
String.Format(@ "<a href="$1">{0}</a>",
MyFunction("$1" )),
regexOptions);
Jun 27 '08 #1
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