Explain C# Substitution in regular expression

Csharp Programming Server Side Programming

A regular expression is a pattern that could be matched against an input text. There are various categories of characters, operators, and constructs that let’s you to define regular expressions. Substitutions are used in replacement patterns.

The following table lists the substitutions.

Character	Description	Pattern	Replacement pattern	Input string	Resulting string
$number	Substitutes the substring matched by group number.	\b(\w+)(\s)(\w+)\b	$3$2$1	"one two"	"two one"
${name}	Substitutes the substring matched by the named groupname.	\b(?< word1>\w+)(\s)(?< word2>\w+)\b	${word2} ${word1}	"one two"	"two one"
$$	Substitutes a literal "$".	\b(\d+)\s?USD	$$$1	"103 USD"	"$103"
$&	Substitutes a copy of the whole match.	(\$(\d(\.+\d+)?){1})	**$&	"$1.30"	"$1.30"
$`	Substitutes all the text of the input string before the match.	B+	$`	"AABBCC"	"AAAACC"
$'	Substitutes all the text of the input string after the match.	B+	$'	"AABBCC"	"AACCCC"
$+	Substitutes the last group that was captured.	B+(C+)	$+	"AABBCCDD"	AACCDD
$_	Substitutes the entire input string.	B+	$_	"AABBCC"	"AAAABBCCC

Arjun Thakur

Published on 18-Sep-2018 08:28:30

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