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Can't properly rebuild a string with Replacement values from Dictionary

I am trying to build a file using a template. I am processing the file in a while loop line by line. The first section of the file, first 35 lines are header information. The infromation is surrounded by # signs. Take this string for example:
Field InspectionStationID 3 {"PVA TePla #WSM#", "sw#data.tool_context.TOOL_SOFTWARE_VERSION#", "#data.context.TOOL_ENTITY#"}
The expected output should be:
Field InspectionStationID 3 {"PVA TePla", "sw0.2.002", "WSM102"}
This header section uses a different mapping than the rest of the file so I wanted to parse the file line by line from top to bottom and use a different logic for each section so that I don't waste time parsing the entire file at once multiple times for different sections.
The logic uses two dictionaries populated from an xml file. Because the file has mutliple tables, I combined them in the two dictionaries like so:
var headerCdataIndexKeyVals = Dictionary<string, int>(){
{"data.tool_context.TOOL_SOFTWARE_VERSION", 1},
{"data.context.TOOL_ENTITY",0}
};
var headerCdataArrayKeyVals = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
var tool_contextCdataList = new list <string>{"HM654", "sw0.2.002"};
var contextCdataList = new List<string>{"WSM102"}
headerCdataArrayKeyVals.add("tool_context", tool_contextCdataList);
headerCdataArrayKeyVals.add("context", contextCdataList);
To help me map the values to their respective positions in the string in one go and without having to loop through multiple dictionaries.
I am using the following logic:
public static string FindSubsInDelimetersAndReturn(string str, char openDelimiter, char closeDelimiter, HeaderMapperData mapperData )
{
string newString = string.Empty;
// Stores the indices of
Stack <int> dels = new Stack <int>();
for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
{
var let = str[i];
// If opening delimeter
// is encountered
if (str[i] == openDelimiter && dels.Count == 0)
{
dels.Push(i);
}
// If closing delimeter
// is encountered
else if (str[i] == closeDelimiter && dels.Count > 0)
{
// Extract the position
// of opening delimeter
int pos = dels.Peek();
dels.Pop();
// Length of substring
int len = i - 1 - pos;
// Extract the substring
string headerSubstring = str.Substring(pos + 1, len);
bool hasKey = mapperData.HeaderCdataIndexKeyVals.TryGetValue(headerSubstring.ToUpper(), out int headerCdataIndex);
string[] headerSubstringSplit = headerSubstring.Split('.');
string headerCDataVal = string.Empty;
if (hasKey)
{
if (headerSubstring.Contains("CONTAINER.CONTEXT", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
headerCDataVal = mapperData.HeaderCdataArrayKeyVals[headerSubstringSplit[1].ToUpper() + '.' + headerSubstringSplit[2].ToUpper()][headerCdataIndex];
//mapperData.HeaderCdataArrayKeyVals[]
}
else
{
headerCDataVal = mapperData.HeaderCdataArrayKeyVals[headerSubstringSplit[1].ToUpper()][headerCdataIndex];
}
string strToReplace = openDelimiter + headerSubstring + closeDelimiter;
string sub = str.Remove(i + 1);
sub = sub.Replace(strToReplace, headerCDataVal);
newString += sub;
}
else if (headerSubstring == "WSM" && closeDelimiter == '#')
{
string sub = str.Remove(len + 1);
newString += sub.Replace(openDelimiter + headerSubstring + closeDelimiter, "");
}
else
{
newString += let;
}
}
}
return newString;
}
}
But my output turns out to be:
"\tFie\tField InspectionStationID 3 {\"PVA TePla#WSM#\", \"sw0.2.002\tField InspectionStationID 3 {\"PVA TePla#WSM#\", \"sw#data.tool_context.TOOL_SOFTWARE_VERSION#\", \"WSM102"
Can someone help understand why this is happening and how I can go about correcting it so I get the output:
Field InspectionStationID 3 {"PVA TePla", "sw0.2.002", "WSM102"}
Am i even trying to solve this the right way or is there a better cleaner way to do it? Btw if the key is not in the dictionary I replace it with empty string

text parsing application c# without third party libraries

For example, there is a line:
name, tax, company.
To separate them i need a split method.
string[] text = File.ReadAllLines("file.csv", Encoding.Default);
foreach (string line in text)
{
string[] words = line.Split(',');
foreach (string word in words)
{
Console.WriteLine(word);
}
}
Console.ReadKey();
But how to divide if in quotes the text with a comma is indicated:
name, tax, "company, Ariel";<br>
"name, surname", tax, company;<br> and so on.
To make it like this :
Max | 12.3 | company, Ariel
Alex, Smith| 13.1 | Oriflame
It is necessary to take into account that the input data will not always be in an ideal format (as in the example). That is, there may be 3 quotes in a row or a string without commas. The program should not fall in any case. If it is impossible to parse, then issue a message about it.

Split using double quotes first. And Split using comma on the first string.

You can use TextFieldParser from Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO
var list = new List<Data>();
var isHeader=true;
using (TextFieldParser parser = new TextFieldParser(filePath))
{
parser.Delimiters = new string[] { "," };
while (true)
{
string[] parts = parser.ReadFields();
if(isHeader)
{
isHeader = false;
continue;
}
if (parts == null)
break;
list.Add(new Data
{
People = parts[0],
Tax = Double.Parse(parts[1]),
Company = parts[2]
});
}
}
Where Data is defined as
public class Data
{
public string People{get;set;}
public double Tax{get;set;}
public string Company{get;set;}
}
Please note you need to include Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO
Example Data,
Name,Tax,Company
Max,12.3,"company, Ariel"
Ariel,13.1,"company, Oriflame"
Output

Here's a bit of code that might help, not the most efficient but I use it to 'see' what is going on with the parsing if a particular line is giving trouble.
string[] text = File.ReadAllLines("file.csv", Encoding.Default);
string[] datArr;
string tmpStr;
foreach (string line in text)
{
ParseString(line, ",", "!####!", out datArr, out tmpStr)
foreach(string s in datArr)
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
Console.ReadKey();
private static void ParseString(string inputString, string origDelim, string newDelim, out string[] retArr, out string retStr)
{
string tmpStr = inputString;
retArr = new[] {""};
retStr = "";
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tmpStr))
{
//If there is only one Quote character in the line, ignore/remove it:
if (tmpStr.Count(f => f == '"') == 1)
tmpStr = tmpStr.Replace("\"", "");
string[] tmpArr = tmpStr.Split(new[] {origDelim}, StringSplitOptions.None);
var inQuote = 0;
StringBuilder lineToWrite = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var s in tmpArr)
{
if (s.Contains("\""))
inQuote++;
switch (inQuote)
{
case 1:
//Begin quoted text
lineToWrite.Append(lineToWrite.Length > 0
? newDelim + s.Replace("\"", "")
: s.Replace("\"", ""));
if (s.Length > 4 && s.Substring(0, 2) == "\"\"" && s.Substring(s.Length - 2, 2) != "\"\"")
{
//if string has two quotes at the beginning and is > 4 characters and the last two characters are NOT quotes,
//inquote needs to be incremented.
inQuote++;
}
else if ((s.Substring(0, 1) == "\"" && s.Substring(s.Length - 1, 1) == "\"" &&
s.Length > 1) || (s.Count(x => x == '\"') % 2 == 0))
{
//if string has more than one character and both begins and ends with a quote, then it's ok and counter should be reset.
//if string has an EVEN number of quotes, it should be ok and counter should be reset.
inQuote = 0;
}
else
{
inQuote++;
}
break;
case 2:
//text between the quotes
//If we are here the origDelim value was found between the quotes
//include origDelim so there is no data loss.
//Example quoted text: "Dr. Mario, Sr, MD";
// ", Sr" would be handled here
// ", MD" would be handled in case 3 end of quoted text.
lineToWrite.Append(origDelim + s);
break;
case 3:
//End quoted text
//If we are here the origDelim value was found between the quotes
//and we are at the end of the quoted text
//include origDelim so there is no data loss.
//Example quoted text: "Dr. Mario, MD"
// ", MD" would be handled here.
lineToWrite.Append(origDelim + s.Replace("\"", ""));
inQuote = 0;
break;
default:
lineToWrite.Append(lineToWrite.Length > 0 ? newDelim + s : s);
break;
}
}
if (lineToWrite.Length > 0)
{
retStr = lineToWrite.ToString();
retArr = tmpLn.Split(new[] {newDelim}, StringSplitOptions.None);
}
}
}

C# string.split() separate string by uppercase

I've been using the Split() method to split strings. But this work if you set some character for condition in string.Split(). Is there any way to split a string when is see Uppercase?
Is it possible to get few words from some not separated string like:
DeleteSensorFromTemplate
And the result string is to be like:
Delete Sensor From Template

Use Regex.split
string[] split = Regex.Split(str, #"(?<!^)(?=[A-Z])");

Another way with regex:
public static string SplitCamelCase(string input)
{
return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(input, "([A-Z])", " $1", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Compiled).Trim();
}

If you do not like RegEx and you really just want to insert the missing spaces, this will do the job too:
public static string InsertSpaceBeforeUpperCase(this string str)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
char previousChar = char.MinValue; // Unicode '\0'
foreach (char c in str)
{
if (char.IsUpper(c))
{
// If not the first character and previous character is not a space, insert a space before uppercase
if (sb.Length != 0 && previousChar != ' ')
{
sb.Append(' ');
}
}
sb.Append(c);
previousChar = c;
}
return sb.ToString();
}

I had some fun with this one and came up with a function that splits by case, as well as groups together caps (it assumes title case for whatever follows) and digits.
Examples:
Input -> "TodayIUpdated32UPCCodes"
Output -> "Today I Updated 32 UPC Codes"
Code (please excuse the funky symbols I use)...
public string[] SplitByCase(this string s) {
var ʀ = new List<string>();
var ᴛ = new StringBuilder();
var previous = SplitByCaseModes.None;
foreach(var ɪ in s) {
SplitByCaseModes mode_ɪ;
if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ɪ.ToString())) {
mode_ɪ = SplitByCaseModes.WhiteSpace;
} else if("0123456789".Contains(ɪ)) {
mode_ɪ = SplitByCaseModes.Digit;
} else if(ɪ == ɪ.ToString().ToUpper()[0]) {
mode_ɪ = SplitByCaseModes.UpperCase;
} else {
mode_ɪ = SplitByCaseModes.LowerCase;
}
if((previous == SplitByCaseModes.None) || (previous == mode_ɪ)) {
ᴛ.Append(ɪ);
} else if((previous == SplitByCaseModes.UpperCase) && (mode_ɪ == SplitByCaseModes.LowerCase)) {
if(ᴛ.Length > 1) {
ʀ.Add(ᴛ.ToString().Substring(0, ᴛ.Length - 1));
ᴛ.Remove(0, ᴛ.Length - 1);
}
ᴛ.Append(ɪ);
} else {
ʀ.Add(ᴛ.ToString());
ᴛ.Clear();
ᴛ.Append(ɪ);
}
previous = mode_ɪ;
}
if(ᴛ.Length != 0) ʀ.Add(ᴛ.ToString());
return ʀ.ToArray();
}
private enum SplitByCaseModes { None, WhiteSpace, Digit, UpperCase, LowerCase }

Here's another different way if you don't want to be using string builders or RegEx, which are totally acceptable answers. I just want to offer a different solution:
string Split(string input)
{
string result = "";
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
{
if (char.IsUpper(input[i]))
{
result += ' ';
}
result += input[i];
}
return result.Trim();
}

How to replace only one part of a sub string from a string containing more than one similar parts?

I might have not stated the question as what I would like to. Please consider below scenario.
Scenario:
I am implementing a Search/Replace functionality in my C# Win Form application. This feature will have the option to replace a substring that "starts with" or "ends with" a certain value. For example:
A string contains "123ABCD". Replacing "123" with "XYZ" should produce: "XYZABCD"
A string contains "ABCD123". Replacing "123" with "XYZ" should produce: "ABCDXYZ"
Both of these features are working fine. My problem is when the string contains "123ABCD123". Both operations return the wrong value when using "XYZ".
"starts with" produces "XYZABCDXYZ", instead of "XYZABCD"
"ends with" produces "XYZABCDXYZ" instead of "ABCDXYZ"
Can anyone give me an idea how to achieve that?
Thanks !!!
Code Snippet:
if (this.rbMatchFieldsStartedWith.Checked)
{
if (caseSencetive)
{
matched = currentCellValue.StartsWith(findWhat);
}
else
{
matched = currentCellValue.ToLower().StartsWith(findWhat.ToLower());
}
}
else if (this.rbMatchFieldsEndsWith.Checked)
{
if (caseSencetive)
{
matched = currentCellValue.EndsWith(findWhat);
}
else
{
matched = currentCellValue.ToLower().EndsWith(findWhat.ToLower());
}
}
if (matched)
{
if (replace)
{
if (this.rbMatchWholeField.Checked)
{
currentCell.Value = replaceWith;
}
else
{
currentCellValue = currentCellValue.Replace(findWhat, replaceWith);
currentCell.Value = currentCellValue;
}
this.QCGridView.RefreshEdit();
}
else
{
currentCell.Style.BackColor = Color.Aqua;
}
}

Implement the replacement method dependent on the search mode.
Replace the line
currentCellValue = currentCellValue.Replace(findWhat, replaceWith);
with
if (this.rbMatchFieldsStartedWith.Checked)
{
// target string starts with findWhat, so remove findWhat and prepend replaceWith
currentCellValue = replaceWith + currentCellValue.SubString(findWhat.Length);
}
else
{
// target string end with findWhat, so remove findWhat and append replaceWith.
currentCellValue = currentCellValue.SubString(0, currentCellValue.Length - findWhat.Length) + replaceWith;
}
currentCell.Value = newValue;

This sounds like a good one for regular expressions.
It is supported by .NET, and also has a replacement syntax.

I just want to try a replacement method without using regex.
(Regex could be the right way to do it, but it was funny to find an alternative)
void Main()
{
string test = "123ABCD123"; // String to change
string rep = "XYZ"; // String to replace
string find = "123"; // Replacement string
bool searchStart = true; // Flag for checkbox startswith
bool searchEnd = true; // Flag for checkbox endswith
bool caseInsensitive = true; // Flag for case type replacement
string result = test;
int pos = -1;
int lastPos = -1;
if(caseInsensitive == true)
{
pos = test.IndexOf(find, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
lastPos = test.LastIndexOf(find, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
}
else
{
pos = test.IndexOf(find, StringComparison.Ordinal);
lastPos = test.LastIndexOf(find, StringComparison.Ordinal);
}
result = test;
if(pos == 0 && searchStart == true)
{
result = rep + test.Substring(find.Length);
}
if(lastPos != 0 && lastPos != pos && lastPos + find.Length == test.Length && searchEnd == true)
{
result = result.Substring(0, lastPos) + rep;
}
Console.WriteLine(result);
}

First off all let's trace your scenario assuming:
string to work on is 123ABCD123
starts with is checked.
aim is to replace "123" with "XYZ"
by just reading your code. We hit if (this.rbMatchFieldsStartedWith.Checked) and which evaluates to true. So we step in that block. We hit matched = currentCellValue.StartsWith(findWhat); and matched = true. We continue with if (matched) condition which also evaluates to true. After that if (replace) evaluates to true. Finally we make the last decision with if (this.rbMatchWholeField.Checked) which evaluates to false so we continue with else block:
currentCellValue = currentCellValue.Replace(findWhat, replaceWith);
currentCell.Value = currentCellValue;
First line in this block replaces all the occurrences of findWhat with replaceWith, namely all the occurrences of 123 with XYZ. Of course this is not the desired behaviour. Instead of Replace you must use a function that replaces just the first or the last occurrence of the string according to the input of course.

Find substring ignoring specified characters

Do any of you know of an easy/clean way to find a substring within a string while ignoring some specified characters to find it. I think an example would explain things better:
string: "Hello, -this- is a string"
substring to find: "Hello this"
chars to ignore: "," and "-"
found the substring, result: "Hello, -this"
Using Regex is not a requirement for me, but I added the tag because it feels related.
Update:
To make the requirement clearer: I need the resulting substring with the ignored chars, not just an indication that the given substring exists.
Update 2:
Some of you are reading too much into the example, sorry, i'll give another scenario that should work:
string: "?A&3/3/C)412&"
substring to find: "A41"
chars to ignore: "&", "/", "3", "C", ")"
found the substring, result: "A&3/3/C)41"
And as a bonus (not required per se), it will be great if it's also not safe to assume that the substring to find will not have the ignored chars on it, e.g.: given the last example we should be able to do:
substring to find: "A3C412&"
chars to ignore: "&", "/", "3", "C", ")"
found the substring, result: "A&3/3/C)412&"
Sorry if I wasn't clear before, or still I'm not :).
Update 3:
Thanks to everyone who helped!, this is the implementation I'm working with for now:
http://www.pastebin.com/pYHbb43Z
An here are some tests:
http://www.pastebin.com/qh01GSx2
I'm using some custom extension methods I'm not including but I believe they should be self-explainatory (I will add them if you like)
I've taken a lot of your ideas for the implementation and the tests but I'm giving the answer to #PierrOz because he was one of the firsts, and pointed me in the right direction.
Feel free to keep giving suggestions as alternative solutions or comments on the current state of the impl. if you like.

in your example you would do:
string input = "Hello, -this-, is a string";
string ignore = "[-,]*";
Regex r = new Regex(string.Format("H{0}e{0}l{0}l{0}o{0} {0}t{0}h{0}i{0}s{0}", ignore));
Match m = r.Match(input);
return m.Success ? m.Value : string.Empty;
Dynamically you would build the part [-, ] with all the characters to ignore and you would insert this part between all the characters of your query.
Take care of '-' in the class []: put it at the beginning or at the end
So more generically, it would give something like:
public string Test(string query, string input, char[] ignorelist)
{
string ignorePattern = "[";
for (int i=0; i<ignoreList.Length; i++)
{
if (ignoreList[i] == '-')
{
ignorePattern.Insert(1, "-");
}
else
{
ignorePattern += ignoreList[i];
}
}
ignorePattern += "]*";
for (int i = 0; i < query.Length; i++)
{
pattern += query[0] + ignorepattern;
}
Regex r = new Regex(pattern);
Match m = r.Match(input);
return m.IsSuccess ? m.Value : string.Empty;
}

Here's a non-regex string extension option:
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static bool SubstringSearch(this string s, string value, char[] ignoreChars, out string result)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
throw new ArgumentException("Search value cannot be null or empty.", "value");
bool found = false;
int matches = 0;
int startIndex = -1;
int length = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < s.Length && !found; i++)
{
if (startIndex == -1)
{
if (s[i] == value[0])
{
startIndex = i;
++matches;
++length;
}
}
else
{
if (s[i] == value[matches])
{
++matches;
++length;
}
else if (ignoreChars != null && ignoreChars.Contains(s[i]))
{
++length;
}
else
{
startIndex = -1;
matches = 0;
length = 0;
}
}
found = (matches == value.Length);
}
if (found)
{
result = s.Substring(startIndex, length);
}
else
{
result = null;
}
return found;
}
}

EDIT: here's an updated solution addressing the points in your recent update. The idea is the same except if you have one substring it will need to insert the ignore pattern between each character. If the substring contains spaces it will split on the spaces and insert the ignore pattern between those words. If you don't have a need for the latter functionality (which was more in line with your original question) then you can remove the Split and if checking that provides that pattern.
Note that this approach is not going to be the most efficient.
string input = #"foo ?A&3/3/C)412& bar A341C2";
string substring = "A41";
string[] ignoredChars = { "&", "/", "3", "C", ")" };
// builds up the ignored pattern and ensures a dash char is placed at the end to avoid unintended ranges
string ignoredPattern = String.Concat("[",
String.Join("", ignoredChars.Where(c => c != "-")
.Select(c => Regex.Escape(c)).ToArray()),
(ignoredChars.Contains("-") ? "-" : ""),
"]*?");
string[] substrings = substring.Split(new[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
string pattern = "";
if (substrings.Length > 1)
{
pattern = String.Join(ignoredPattern, substrings);
}
else
{
pattern = String.Join(ignoredPattern, substring.Select(c => c.ToString()).ToArray());
}
foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(input, pattern))
{
Console.WriteLine("Index: {0} -- Match: {1}", match.Index, match.Value);
}
Try this solution out:
string input = "Hello, -this- is a string";
string[] searchStrings = { "Hello", "this" };
string pattern = String.Join(#"\W+", searchStrings);
foreach (Match match in Regex.Matches(input, pattern))
{
Console.WriteLine(match.Value);
}
The \W+ will match any non-alphanumeric character. If you feel like specifying them yourself, you can replace it with a character class of the characters to ignore, such as [ ,.-]+ (always place the dash character at the start or end to avoid unintended range specifications). Also, if you need case to be ignored use RegexOptions.IgnoreCase:
Regex.Matches(input, pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
If your substring is in the form of a complete string, such as "Hello this", you can easily get it into an array form for searchString in this way:
string[] searchString = substring.Split(new[] { ' ' },
StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

This code will do what you want, although I suggest you modify it to fit your needs better:
string resultString = null;
try
{
resultString = Regex.Match(subjectString, "Hello[, -]*this", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Value;
}
catch (ArgumentException ex)
{
// Syntax error in the regular expression
}

You could do this with a single Regex but it would be quite tedious as after every character you would need to test for zero or more ignored characters. It is probably easier to strip all the ignored characters with Regex.Replace(subject, "[-,]", ""); then test if the substring is there.
Or the single Regex way
Regex.IsMatch(subject, "H[-,]*e[-,]*l[-,]*l[-,]*o[-,]* [-,]*t[-,]*h[-,]*i[-,]*s[-,]*")

Here's a non-regex way to do it using string parsing.
private string GetSubstring()
{
string searchString = "Hello, -this- is a string";
string searchStringWithoutUnwantedChars = searchString.Replace(",", "").Replace("-", "");
string desiredString = string.Empty;
if(searchStringWithoutUnwantedChars.Contains("Hello this"))
desiredString = searchString.Substring(searchString.IndexOf("Hello"), searchString.IndexOf("this") + 4);
return desiredString;
}

You could do something like this, since most all of these answer require rebuilding the string in some form.
string1 is your string you want to look through
//Create a List(Of string) that contains the ignored characters'
List<string> ignoredCharacters = new List<string>();
//Add all of the characters you wish to ignore in the method you choose
//Use a function here to get a return
public bool subStringExist(List<string> ignoredCharacters, string myString, string toMatch)
{
//Copy Your string to a temp
string tempString = myString;
bool match = false;
//Replace Everything that you don't want
foreach (string item in ignoredCharacters)
{
tempString = tempString.Replace(item, "");
}
//Check if your substring exist
if (tempString.Contains(toMatch))
{
match = true;
}
return match;
}

You could always use a combination of RegEx and string searching
public class RegExpression {
public static void Example(string input, string ignore, string find)
{
string output = string.Format("Input: {1}{0}Ignore: {2}{0}Find: {3}{0}{0}", Environment.NewLine, input, ignore, find);
if (SanitizeText(input, ignore).ToString().Contains(SanitizeText(find, ignore)))
Console.WriteLine(output + "was matched");
else
Console.WriteLine(output + "was NOT matched");
Console.WriteLine();
}
public static string SanitizeText(string input, string ignore)
{
Regex reg = new Regex("[^" + ignore + "]");
StringBuilder newInput = new StringBuilder();
foreach (Match m in reg.Matches(input))
{
newInput.Append(m.Value);
}
return newInput.ToString();
}
}
Usage would be like
RegExpression.Example("Hello, -this- is a string", "-,", "Hello this"); //Should match
RegExpression.Example("Hello, -this- is a string", "-,", "Hello this2"); //Should not match
RegExpression.Example("?A&3/3/C)412&", "&/3C\\)", "A41"); // Should match
RegExpression.Example("?A&3/3/C) 412&", "&/3C\\)", "A41"); // Should not match
RegExpression.Example("?A&3/3/C)412&", "&/3C\\)", "A3C412&"); // Should match
Output
Input: Hello, -this- is a string
Ignore: -,
Find: Hello this
was matched
Input: Hello, -this- is a string
Ignore: -,
Find: Hello this2
was NOT matched
Input: ?A&3/3/C)412&
Ignore: &/3C)
Find: A41
was matched
Input: ?A&3/3/C) 412&
Ignore: &/3C)
Find: A41
was NOT matched
Input: ?A&3/3/C)412&
Ignore: &/3C)
Find: A3C412&
was matched