Regular Expression Find and replace

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Hi there i'm using regular expressions to replace "/" eg in string 1/2 and change into a fraction into xml example frac12 but i want all the fractions this is what i have so far...

C#

public static string ChecknReplace(string ingredientsText)
        {
            string pattern = @"(\d{1}\\\d{1})";
            string[] fractions = {"/"};
            var matches = Regex.Matches(pattern, ingredientsText);
            foreach(Match match in matches)
            {
                
            }
        }

Posted 30-Mar-14 7:12am

Nico_Travassos

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[no name] 30-Mar-14 13:36pm

Okay and did you have sort of a question or problem regarding this code?

Nico_Travassos 30-Mar-14 13:38pm

im not sure how to finish off the foreach statement because everything i try does not work

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 30-Mar-14 13:43pm

Do you mean to replace n/m to fracnm everywhere? (n and m are numbers)

Nico_Travassos 30-Mar-14 13:47pm

yes

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-30T07:53:00

Solution 1

Try:

C#

Regex regex = new Regex(@"(\d+)/(\d+)");
string result = regex.Replace(InputText,"frac $1 $2 ");

Posted 30-Mar-14 7:53am

OriginalGriff

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Nico_Travassos 30-Mar-14 14:17pm

so i must not use the foreach statement

OriginalGriff 30-Mar-14 14:24pm

It's not "must not" - more "don't have to" :laugh: