Only strip commas surrounded by numbers in a string
- by overlook77
I am using StreamReader to read each line of a CSV file into a string. As I am processing each line, I need to strip out any commas that ONLY are surrounded by other numbers.
For example, if the string was:
"textfield1", "textfield2", "100.00", "1,070.00"
I would need to only take the comma out of "1,070.00" from this entire string, resulting in:
"textfield1", "textfield2", "100.00", "1070.00"
Each string read from the CSV file can differ in number of fields, length, etc., so I need to use something (Regular Expressions maybe?) that looks at the entire string without hardcoding a location or blanket removal of all commas.
Here is the approach I have been trying:
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(strInputFile);
string nextLine = sr.ReadLine();
try
{
while ((nextLine = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
string rawtext = nextLine.Replace("[0-9]"+","+"[0-9]" , "[0-9]"+"[0-9]");
// ....rest of code
}
}
This obviously doesn't work because I don't understand how to do this :)
I am new at C# and inexperienced in Regex, so hopefully this is relatively simple.
