Regex removing double/triple comma in string

Question

I need to parse a string so the result should output like that:

\"abc,def,ghi,klm,nop\"

But the string I am receiving could looks more like tha

Answer 1

Actually, you can do it without any Trim calls.

text = Regex.Replace(text, "^,+|,+$|(?<=,),+", "");

should do the trick.

The idea behind the regex is to only match that, which we want to remove. The first part matches any string of consecutive commas at the start of the input string, the second matches any consecutive string of commas at the end, while the last matches any consecutive string of commas that follows a comma.