Why does my Regex.Replace string contain the replacement value twice?

Question

I have the following string: aWesdE, which I want to convert to http://myserver.com/aWesdE.jpg using Regex.Replace(string, string, string, Re

Answer 1

There are actually 2 matches in your Regex. You defined your match like this:

string match = "(.*)";

It means match zero or more characters, so you have 2 matches - empty string and your text. In order to fix it change the pattern to

string match = "(.+)";

It means match one or more characters - in that case you will only get a single match