Wildcard string search within a string

[Gerry Viator]

Hi all,
I want to remove this [878454]: With a string function? Can I use the Astric
as wild card? If not, how?

Dim txtstr as String = "Print Report for MRN [878454] from B Database"

txtstr = txtstr.Replace("[*]","")

please help

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Gerry Viator <vi*****@musc.edu> wrote:

I want to remove this [878454]: With a string function? Can I use the Astric
as wild card? If not, how?

Dim txtstr as String = "Print Report for MRN [878454] from B Database"

txtstr = txtstr.Replace("[*]","")

You could either use regular expressions, or find the first index of
the '[', then the first index of ']' after that, and remove that
section. Here's the regex:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
string test = "Print Report for MRN [878454] from B Database";

Regex regex = new Regex(@"\[.*\]");

Console.WriteLine (regex.Replace(test, ""));
}
}

Note that you end up with a double space in the middle that way.

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[John M Deal]

You won't be able to do this with the normal replace method, however
here is a link to a sample of how to do this using the regular
expression features of .Net.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html

The code is in C#, but you shouldn't have a real problem translating it
to VB.Net (I'm guessing that you use VB.Net from you original question).

Have A Better One!

John M Deal, MCP
Necessity Software

Gerry Viator wrote:

Hi all,
I want to remove this [878454]: With a string function? Can I use the Astric
as wild card? If not, how?

Dim txtstr as String = "Print Report for MRN [878454] from B Database"

txtstr = txtstr.Replace("[*]","")

please help

[Gerry Viator]

Thanks!!

that did it

Gerry
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Hi all,
I want to remove this [878454]: With a string function? Can I use the
Astric as wild card? If not, how?

Dim txtstr as String = "Print Report for MRN [878454] from B Database"

txtstr = txtstr.Replace("[*]","")

please help