Regular Expression

[Guest]

Thank you in advance. I have a string that is variable length. Every
five characters I need to put a "<BR>" in. So if I have the following:

Dim Test as string = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

I need to get "xxxxx<BR>xxxxx<BR>xxxxx<BR>xx". I think a regular
expression would work for this. Now this problem: I have never done one
before. How would I go about doing this. I am using notepad as the
editor.

Thanks again.

 

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Why don't you use one of the String method at:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemStringClassTopic.asp
Look for the first 5 characters and use INSERT method
Patrick

 

[Karl Seguin]

Note sure that regex is the best solution, might be able to do something
very simlpe with the string or stringbuilder class...but if regex are the
way to go ,this should work:

string valueIWant = Regex.Replace(input, "(?<five>.{5})", "${five}<br>");

Karl

 

[Paul Gielens]

Regular expressions van be daunting to write. We're lucky that Roy Osherove
provided an excellent regular expressions testing and learning tool called
The Regulator. Get your free copy here http://regulator.sf.net/

Best regards,
Paul Gielens

Visit my blog @ http://weblogs.asp.net/pgielens/
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[Guest]

Regular expressions van be daunting to write. We're lucky that Roy Osherove
provided an excellent regular expressions testing and learning tool called
The Regulator. Get your free copy here http://regulator.sf.net/

Best regards,
Paul Gielens

Visit my blog @ http://weblogs.asp.net/pgielens/
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Thank you for you help. I went with the regular expression. It works
great. Thanks again.