How to replace word with hyperlink?

Asked Jun 25 '19 at 12:43

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Starting with an example, I have some keywords like

Narendra Modi, Modi, India, Speech, Parliament

And I have a story with text

Narendra Modi will give a speech in the parliament of India.

Now I want my regex to replace the keyword with the hyperlink in the story.

<a>Narendra Modi</a> will give speech in the <a>parliament</a> of <a>India.</a>

My Code for this is

var tagArray = bodykeywords.Split(',').ToList();
foreach (var tag in tagArray.OrderBy(a => a.Length))
{
    var replaceTag = tag.Replace("(", "");
    replaceTag = replaceTag.Replace(")", "");
    DataDesc = Regex.Replace(DataDesc, "\"" + replaceTag.Trim() + "\"", " <a href=\"/news?tag=" + replaceTag.Trim() + "\">\"" + replaceTag.Trim() + "\"</a> ");
    DataDesc = Regex.Replace(DataDesc, " " + replaceTag.Trim() + ", ", " <a href=\"/news?tag=" + replaceTag.Trim() + "\">" + replaceTag.Trim() + "</a>, ");
    DataDesc = Regex.Replace(DataDesc, " " + replaceTag.Trim() + " ", " <a href=\"/news?tag=" + replaceTag.Trim() + "\">" + replaceTag.Trim() + "</a> ");

}

Problem is I am not able to replace the word with full stop like India in the given example and Word with repetition like Narendra Modi, Modi in the keyword.

edited Jun 25 '19 at 12:43

Uwe Keim

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asked Jun 25 '19 at 12:43

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[You cannot parse HTML with Regex](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/107625). – Uwe Keim Jun 25 '19 at 12:44
BTW: The full-stop should be _outside_ of the link, not inside. – Uwe Keim Jun 25 '19 at 12:46
@UweKeim So how I can achieve this? – Neeraj Mehta Jun 25 '19 at 12:46
@UweKeim Full stop should be outside – Neeraj Mehta Jun 25 '19 at 12:46
I would recommend another pass, where you simply replace `.` with `.` you do not need regex for this fix – Clemens Jung Jul 21 '21 at 20:53

How to replace word with hyperlink?

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