Regex.Replace not working as expected with Regexoptions.IgnoreCase

Question

If I have a few strings:

str = "This is a cool string (orch. details here): 2. Denied."
str2 = " (Orch. details here)" <--notice the capital letter

and then I do this line of code to try to clear that part out:

str3 = Regex.Replace(str, str2, "", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

str3 ends up being exactly as what str was before execution. I suspect that it is not "seeing" the other characters such as the periods because when I do this with just simple alphabetic characters in str and str2 then it will replace it just fine.

What gives?! :)

Thank you for any insight!

JaredPar · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-07 14:38:48Z

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Both parens and periods have meanings in regular expressions. Hence it's not trying to literally match the contents of str2 but instead a regular expression that is defined by str2. If you want it to match literally you need to escape the string

str2 = Regex.Escape(str2);

answered Jan 7, 2014 at 14:38

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RandyWhirl Over a year ago

JaredPar, thank you so much, man! That worked like a charm. I am going to go research it now.

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