Highlight a list of words using a regular expression in c#

Question

I have some site content that contains abbreviations. I have a list of recognised abbreviations for the site, along with their explanations. I want to create a regular expre

Answer 1

I'm doing pretty exactly what you're looking for in my application and this works for me: the parameter str is your content:

public static string GetGlossaryString(string str)
        {
            List glossaryWords = GetGlossaryItems();//this collection would contain your abbreviations; you could just make it a Dictionary so you can have the abbreviation-full term pairs and use them in the loop below 

            str = string.Format(" {0} ", str);//quick and dirty way to also search the first and last word in the content.

            foreach (string word in glossaryWords)
                str = Regex.Replace(str, "([\\W])(" + word + ")([\\W])", "$1$2$3", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

            return str.Trim();
        }