Question Having a string between two special characters

Hello, I'm trying to get the string between two special characters and then replace that text with something i need

I have a string like this "New :north: Game :south:" and i wanna get the north and south thing and replace it with another string i have, but i first need to check if the text have this special characters to then do everything, right know i have too much ifs that do the work but it's not the best way.

 

Regular expressions can be very useful here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/d...s/regular-expression-language-quick-reference

Not sure exactly what you're doing, but you might want to restructure this so you're considering enums or ScriptableObject instances, then fabricating an output string based on what you find.

 

A regex like this would probably do:

Code (CSharp):

1.         var regExp = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("\\:(.*?)\\:");
2.         var str = regExp.Replace("New :north: Game :south:", $"<sprite=\"{spriteSheetName}\" name=\"$1\">");
3.  

This single Replace call would replace all your ifs at once. Note that this would replace any string between two colons. So this may cause issues if your text may contain additional colons as well. Though instead of using

.*?

(which is a non-greedy(?) wildcard(*) for any character(.)) you could use something more restrictive like

north|south

. So only those two words would match.

If that doesn't solve your problem, there may be other details you haven't mentioned. Note the "$1" in the replace string refers to the first capture group (the things in the parentheses)