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How do I replace the first instance of a string in .NET?
Let's say I have the string:
string s = "Hello world.";
how can I replace the first o in the word Hello for let's say Foo?
In other words I want to end up with:
"HellFoo world."
I know how to replace all the o's but I want to replace just the first one
I think you can use the overload of Regex.Replace to specify the maximum number of times to replace...
var regex = new Regex(Regex.Escape("o"));
var newText = regex.Replace("Hello World", "Foo", 1);
.Replace() call is the maximum number of matches. As noted in other answers below, first replacing just a single instance on simple strings, this solution is not the very efficient. But for other use-cases it may be appropriate.public string ReplaceFirst(string text, string search, string replace)
{
int pos = text.IndexOf(search);
if (pos < 0)
{
return text;
}
return text.Substring(0, pos) + replace + text.Substring(pos + search.Length);
}
here is an Extension Method that could also work as well per VoidKing request
public static class StringExtensionMethods
{
public static string ReplaceFirst(this string text, string search, string replace)
{
int pos = text.IndexOf(search);
if (pos < 0)
{
return text;
}
return text.Substring(0, pos) + replace + text.Substring(pos + search.Length);
}
}
There are a number of ways that you could do this, but the fastest might be to use IndexOf to find the index position of the letter you want to replace and then substring out the text before and after what you want to replace.
if (s.Contains("o"))
{
s = s.Remove(s.IndexOf('o')) + "Foo" + s.Substring(s.IndexOf('o') + 1);
}
