VB.NET and Regular Expressions

Hi creativelogic;

The only reason that this is not working for you is that the LINE BREAKS in the string are not \r\n as in DOS standard but \n as in Unicode standard.

Try setting the pattern to "\b\n" and see if that works for you.

Fernando

Hi Fernando,

That didn't work ... I did however set the pattern to be ControlChars.NewLine, and that seems to work, but shouldn't the string representation work as well?

Thanks!

Matt

You state that, "That didn't work ...", then there are no carrage return line feeds or just line feeds in the string.

You state, "I did however set the pattern to be ControlChars.NewLine".
Was this the string you are replacing the \r\n or \n in?
If it is the pattern can you post that code?

Can you post your code please?

Thanks;
Fernando

Would the following work for you?

result = rawText.Replace(vbCrLf, "<br>")

Hi Fernando,

I figured it out ... you put me on the right track though ... I set the pattern to "\r\n" and that worked.   Here is the code that worked:

    ' ToHtml
    Public Shared Function ToHtml(ByVal rawText As String) As String

        ' Variable declaration
        Dim result As String = rawText
        Dim pattern As String = String.Empty

        ' Variable initialization
        pattern = "\r\n"

        ' Replace cariage returns with a '<br>'
        result = Regex.Replace(result, pattern, "<br>")

        ' Return value
        Return result

    End Function ' ToHtml

Thanks!

Matt

Thanks for the help Fernando!