My C# Corner

We all know how to remove/replace a string in C#, for example:

string myString = "Yousef (programmer) likes to write in C#";

To remove "(programmer)", we can write:

myString = myString.Replace("(programmer)", "");

But what if you have a text file with the following strings:

How do you remove what's between the open/close parenthesis, or for that mattar what's between a begin and end tag (like html tages for example). For that it would be nice if you had a function like:

string RemoveBetween(string strBegin, string strEnd, string strSource);

Finding the string between the parentheses can be done easily using the function GetStringInBetween discussed in this post:

http://www.mycsharpcorner.com/Post.aspx?postID=15

then you can give it to the Replace function and you are done.

Here is the implementation for RemoveStringBetween:

public static string RemoveBetween(string strBegin, string strEnd, string strSource)

// default behavior

return RemoveBetween(strBegin, strEnd, strSource, false, false);

Here is the implementation for RemoveStringBetween with the optional inclusion of the begin and end string tags in the returned result:

public static string RemoveBetween(string strBegin, string strEnd, string strSource, bool removeBegin, bool removeEnd)

string[] result=GetStringInBetween(strBegin, strEnd, strSource, removeBegin, removeEnd);

if(result[0]!="")

return strSource.Replace(result[0], "");

// nothing found between begin & end

return strSource;

Hope this helps... Happy programming!