Replace text in string

[tshad]

I need to replace a value in a string that could be any case:

CREATE
Create
create

And I don't want to change the case of the whole string. Just find the work
"Create" and change it to "ALTER".

I am doing this way at the moment which works:

linePosition = textLine.ToUpper().IndexOf("CREATE");
if (linePosition -1)
{
textLine = textLine.Replace(line.Substring(linePosition, 6), "ALTER");
}

I tried to do:

textLine = textLine.toupper().Replace("CREATE","ALTER");

But that changes the whole line to uppercase.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Tom

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:04:08 -0700, tshad <tf*@dslextreme.comwrote:

I need to replace a value in a string that could be any case:

CREATE
Create
create

And I don't want to change the case of the whole string. Just find the
work
"Create" and change it to "ALTER".

I am doing this way at the moment which works:

linePosition = textLine.ToUpper().IndexOf("CREATE");
if (linePosition -1)
{
textLine = textLine.Replace(line.Substring(linePosition, 6),
"ALTER");
}

Assuming you know ahead of time the word will appear only once at most, I
think the above is fine. You could probably use the Regex class to do the
case-insensitive search for you (though I don't know the exact format off
the top of my head), but that seems like overkill for the purpose.

Pete

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

tshad wrote:

I need to replace a value in a string that could be any case:

CREATE
Create
create

And I don't want to change the case of the whole string. Just find the work
"Create" and change it to "ALTER".

I am doing this way at the moment which works:

linePosition = textLine.ToUpper().IndexOf("CREATE");
if (linePosition -1)
{
textLine = textLine.Replace(line.Substring(linePosition, 6), "ALTER");
}

I tried to do:

textLine = textLine.toupper().Replace("CREATE","ALTER");

But that changes the whole line to uppercase.

Is there a better way to do this?

s = Regex.Replace(s, "CREATE", "ALTER", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

is simple and readable.

Arne

[maximz2005]

Yes, using a regex like
textLine = Regex.Replace(textLine, "CREATE", "ALTER",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
(just like Arne wrote it!)
If that doesn't work, change the CREATE and ALTER in the regex
statement to lowercase.

textLine = textLine.toupper().Replace("CREATE","ALTER");
doesn't work because it's saying that textline equals Upper Case
textline, but with CREATE replaced with ALTER as well.

I recommend using the regex statement, but if you're not up to it,
what you already have is fine.
Oh, yeah, and don't forget to reference System.Text.RegularExpressions
for the regex stuff to work.

-Maximz2005

P.S. You should definetly learn to write Regex statements. There are
lots of programs out there that simplify it greatly. Just google for
regex workbench, regex creator, etc.
On Aug 21, 7:13*pm, Arne Vajhøj <[e-mail]:

tshad wrote:

I need to replace a value in a string that could be any case:

CREATE
Create
create

And I don't want to change the case of the whole string. *Just find the work
"Create" and change it to "ALTER".

I am doing this way at the moment which works:

*linePosition = textLine.ToUpper().IndexOf("CREATE");
*if (linePosition -1)
*{
* * *textLine = textLine.Replace(line.Substring(linePosition, 6), "ALTER");
*}

I tried to do:

textLine = textLine.toupper().Replace("CREATE","ALTER");

But that changes the whole line to uppercase.

Is there a better way to do this?

s = Regex.Replace(s, "CREATE", "ALTER", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

is simple and readable.

Arne