String.Replace ignoring case

Question

I have a string called \"hello world\"

I need to replace the word \"world\" to \"csharp\"

for this I use:

string.Replace(\"World\", \"csharp\         


        

Answer 1

You could use a Regex and perform a case insensitive replace:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string input = "hello WoRlD";
        string result = 
           Regex.Replace(input, "world", "csharp", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        Console.WriteLine(result); // prints "hello csharp"
    }
}

Answer 2

Doesn't this work: I cant imaging anything else being much quicker or easier.

public static class ExtensionMethodsString
{
    public static string Replace(this String thisString, string oldValue, string newValue, StringComparison stringComparison)
    {
        string working = thisString;
        int index = working.IndexOf(oldValue, stringComparison);
        while (index != -1)
        {
            working = working.Remove(index, oldValue.Length);
            working = working.Insert(index, newValue);
            index = index + newValue.Length;
            index = working.IndexOf(oldValue, index, stringComparison);
        }
        return working;
    }
}

Answer 3

Extensions make our lives easier:

static public class StringExtensions
{
    static public string ReplaceInsensitive(this string str, string from, string to)
    {
        str = Regex.Replace(str, from, to, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        return str;
    }
}

Answer 4

You can use the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace to find this helper function:

Replace(sourceString, "replacethis", "withthis", , , CompareMethod.Text)

Answer 5

below is the alternative to replace string ignoring character case

String thisString = "hello world"; 
String replaceString = "World";

//thisString.Replace("World", "csharp"); 
//below is the alternative to replace string ignoring character case

int start = StringUtils.indexOfIgnoreCase(thisString,replaceString);
String searchKey = thisString.substring(start, start+replaceString.length());
thisString= thisString.replaceAll(searchKey ,replaceString );
System.out.println(thisString);

//prints hello World

Answer 6

I have wrote extension method:

public static string ReplaceIgnoreCase(this string source, string oldVale, string newVale)
    {
        if (source.IsNullOrEmpty() || oldVale.IsNullOrEmpty())
            return source;

        var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        string result = source;

        int index = result.IndexOf(oldVale, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);

        while (index >= 0)
        {
            if (index > 0)
                stringBuilder.Append(result.Substring(0, index));

            if (newVale.IsNullOrEmpty().IsNot())
                stringBuilder.Append(newVale);

            stringBuilder.Append(result.Substring(index + oldVale.Length));

            result = stringBuilder.ToString();

            index = result.IndexOf(oldVale, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
        }

        return result;
    }

I use two additional extension methods for previous extension method:

    public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string value)
    {
        return string.IsNullOrEmpty(value);
    }

    public static bool IsNot(this bool val)
    {
        return val == false;
    }