How does MatchEvaluator works? ( C# regex replace)
- by Marin Doric
This is the input string 23x * y34x2. I want to insert " * " (star surrounded by whitespaces) after every number followed by letter, and after every letter followed by number. So my input string would look like this: 23 * x * y * 34 * x * 2.
This is the regex that does the job: @"\d(?=[a-z])|a-z". This is the function that I wrote that inserts the " * ".
Regex reg = new Regex(@"\d(?=[a-z])|[a-z](?=\d)");
MatchCollection matchC;
matchC = reg.Matches(input);
int ii = 1;
foreach (Match element in matchC)//foreach match I will find the index of that match
{
input = input.Insert(element.Index + ii, " * ");//since I' am inserting " * " ( 3 characters )
ii += 3; //I must increment index by 3
}
return input; //return modified input
My question how to do same job using .net MatchEvaluator? I'am new to regex and don't understand good replacing with MatchEvaluator. This is the code that I tried to wrote:
Regex reg = new Regex(@"\d(?=[a-z])|[a-z](?=\d)");
MatchEvaluator matchEval = new MatchEvaluator(ReplaceStar);
input = reg.Replace(input, matchEval);
return input;
}
public string ReplaceStar( Match match )
{
//return What??
}
