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Reputation: 78

VB Regex.Replace with repeating brackets

I am trying to search in a string for a certain value and replace it with another value.

The example:

String: "/accounts/{accountId}/cheques/{chequeId}/cancel"

I am trying to replace anything between { and } with the number 1.

So I would end up with:

String: "/accounts/1/cheques/1/cancel"

I am using the following:

prepedURI = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(prepedURI, "{.*}", "1")

But unfortunately, the Replace function is returning: String: "/accounts/1/cancel"

It seems to be ignoring the first } and replacing everything up to the 2nd }.

Any advice?

Excuse my dumb. This is my first Regex experience, and I am trying my best to understand all these 'flags' in the pattern.

Example (you can paste into a button click event to see what I mean):

Dim prepedURI As String = "/accounts/{accountId}/cheques/{chequeId}/cancel"
prepedURI = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(prepedURI, "{.*}", "1")
MsgBox(prepedURI)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 255

Answers (1)

vaichidrewar
vaichidrewar

Reputation: 9621

Use ? before the closing curly brace

{.*?}

Working example can be found at the following link - http://rubular.com/r/1LpnGNC3sC

Upvotes: 1

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