Regex Replace function with Razor

Question

I was looking for a way to replace all special characters with a replace function. I want to use the Razor syntax but this

@Product.Name.Regex.Replace(@"[^A-Za-z0-9/\s/g]", "_")

does not do the trick.

I've tried this

@Regex.Replace(@Product.Name,@"[^A-Za-z0-9/\s/g]", "_")

and it failed as well.

By now I've tried a lot of other things and a lot of times I keep getting this error message: "The name 'Regex' does not exist in the current context"

Can anybody please help?

score 37 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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You need to add @using System.Text.RegularExpressions to the top of your template. Also, this question will help you if you want this namespace to be available in all templates.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Jan 13 '12 at 08:53

Steve Rukuts

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Just to add to Raskolnikov's answer, when you know the correct name of the class but don't know its namespace, press CTRL + PERIOD and Visual Studio will suggest the "resolve" feature to import the correct namespace. But I don't think this works on the View, maybe just on the cs files. – programad Jan 14 '12 at 00:56
It should work in the view, but I'm not entirely sure as I use Resharper which definitely does this. If you're not using that, I strongly recommend you give it a shot. – Steve Rukuts Jan 14 '12 at 19:43

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '12 at 15:55

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To be complete, the right code for the regular expression is:

@Regex.Replace(@Product.Name,@"[^A-Za-z0-9\.\,_]", "_")

This will replace all special characters with an underscore.

answered Jan 18 '12 at 15:55

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Regex Replace function with Razor

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