Regular Expression Translate

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Amy L

It looks as if there is no equivalent .Net regular expression method that is
comparable to tr/// (Translate) in Perl.

I was looking to squash a specific duplicate character in a string.

In Perl its pretty trivial.

$myString =~ tr/././s;

This will essentially remove duplicate "." periods in a string. Doesn't
matter where they the period is or how many there are.

Is their a .Net equivalent to Perl's translate?

Amy.
 
It looks as if there is no equivalent .Net regular expression method
that is comparable to tr/// (Translate) in Perl.

I was looking to squash a specific duplicate character in a string.

In Perl its pretty trivial.

$myString =~ tr/././s;

This will essentially remove duplicate "." periods in a string.
Doesn't matter where they the period is or how many there are.

Is their a .Net equivalent to Perl's translate?
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Regex.Replace(...);

for your specific case, try:

Regex.Replace(s, @"\.+", ".");

-mdb
 
Amy L said:
I was looking to squash a specific duplicate character in a string.

In Perl its pretty trivial.

$myString =~ tr/././s;

This will essentially remove duplicate "." periods in a string. Doesn't
matter where they the period is or how many there are.

Is their a .Net equivalent to Perl's translate?
Click to expand...

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