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Replace beginning and end of string with unique midle?

I have lots of code like below:
PlusEnvironment.EnumToBool(Row["block_friends"].ToString())
I need to convert them to something like this.
Row["block_friends"].ToString() == "1"
The value that gets passed to EnumToBool is always unique, meaning there is no guarantee that itll be passed by a row, it could be passed by a variable, or even a method that returns a string.
I've tried doing this with regex, but its sort of sketchy and doesn't work 100%.
PlusEnvironment\.EnumToBool\((.*)\)
I need to do this in Visual Studio's find and replace. I'm using VS 17.

If you had a few places where PlusEnvironment.EnumToBool() was called, I would have done the same thing that #IanMercer suggested: just replace PlusEnvironment.EnumToBool( with empty string and the fix all the syntax errors.
#IanMercer has also given you a link to super cool, advanced regex usage that will help you.
But if you are skeptical about using such a complex regex on hundreds of files, here is what I would have done:
Define my own PlusEnvironment class with EnumToBool functionality in my own namespace. And then just replace the using Plus; line with using <my own namespace>; in those hundreds of files. That way my changes will be limited to only the using... line, 1 line per file, and it will be simple find and replace, no regex needed.
(Note: I'm assuming that you don't want to use PlusEnvironment, or the complete library and hence you want to do this type of replacement.)

in Find and Replace Window:
Find:
PlusEnvironment\.EnumToBool\((.*))
Replace:
$1 == "1"
Make sure "Use Regular Expressions" is selected

Double.Parse fails for "10.00" retrieved value

The screenshot sums up the problem:
I have no control over the retrieved value. It comes in with some funky format that I can't figure out and the parsing fails even though it looks totally normal. Typing the value in manually works just fine.
How can I "normalize" the retrieved value so Decimal.Parse does not fail?
For reference, here is the string that fails (copied and pasted):
"‎10.00"

First I would check your regional settings to eliminate anything as simple as a difference in expected decimal separator.
If that draws a blank then if the string 10.00 parses successfully then a string that looks like 10.00 but which fails to parse cannot actually be 10.00.
Inspect and determine the character code of each character of the string and confirm that it really is 10.00 and not some exotic Unicode that has the same appearance but which is actually different (which may also include characters which are not even visible when displayed).

You might have some kind of special character hidden in the string you are retrieving.
Try this:
Double.Parse(Regex.Replace(decimalValue, #"[^0-9.,]+", ""))
You might need to add using statement for System.Text.RegularExpressions

I would replace only the one problematic character, that is the safest option:
s = s.Replace("\u200E", "");

As Jeroen Mostert mentioned in a comment, there is a non-printed character in your decimalValue.
This is a similar question which should help you deal with that.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15259355/7636764
Edit:
Using the the string output = new string(input.Where(c => char.IsLetter(c) || char.IsDigit(c)).ToArray()); part of the solution, but also include in || char.IsPunctuation(c) after IsDigit will get your desired result.

Unable to get a block of code into my regex match groups

So yeah, the title is pretty weird but I have no other idea how to describe my problem properly. Whatever... lets get to the problem.
Job to get done
My boss wants a function that read all functions of a python file and return a DataTable containing the found functions. This function should be written in IronPython (Python which actually uses C# libraries).
The Problem
I am relatively new to Python and I have no idea what this language is capable of, so I started to write my function and yeah it works pretty well, except one weird problem. I wrote a regular expression to find the functions and to test it I downloaded a RegEx Tester. The Regex Tester showed the results I wanted: Group 1 - The function name, Group 2 - The functions parameter and Group 3 - the content of the function.
For some magical reasons, it doesn't work when it goes to live testing. And with doesn't work I mean, Group 3 has actually no output. After testing the expression with another (online) RegEx Tester, it showed me, that Group 3 has actually not the content of the function, it only has a small part of it, starting with a newline/return character.
In my test cases, the results of Group 3 where all the same, starting with a newline/return character and ended with the functions return (e.g. return objDic).
Question: What the hell is going wrong there? I have no idea what is wrong on my RegEx.
The Regex
objRegex = Regex(r"(?i)def[\s]+([\w]+)\(([\, [\w]+)\)(?:[\:{1}]\s*)([\n].*(?!\ndef[\s]+))+")
The Data
def test_function(some_parameter):
try:
some_cool_code_goes_here()
return obj
except Exception as ex:
DetailsBox.Show(ex)
def another_cool_function(another_parameter):
try:
what_you_want()
return obj
except Exception as ex:
DetailsBox.Show(ex)
The Result
Match: def test_function(some_parameter):...
Position: ..
Length: ..
Group 1: test_function
Group 2: some_parameter
Group 3: (newline/return character)
return obj
But Group 3 should be:
try:
some_cool_code_goes_here()
return obj
except Exception as ex:
DetailsBox.Show(ex)
I hope you can help me :3 Thank you guys!

Although #Hamza said in his comment that you have several problems in your regex, I think they are more of uneeded complexity, the reason for not matching the body might be that you haven't let the . special meta-character match the new line so it is stopping at the first new line character after the first Try: statement.
To fix this you will need to let the . match new line characters and here is a stripped down version of your regex that works:
(?i)def\s+(\w+)\s*\(([\, \w]+)\)(?:\s*:\s*)(.+?)(?=def|$)

Thanks to HamZa for the quick help (and of course also thanks for all the other helpers), he actually solved the problem. There were just a few adjustments necessary (to make it work for C# :-)) but the main point comes from him, thanks a lot.
Solution for my problem:
Regex(r"(?is)def\s*(?<name>\w+)\s*\((?<parameter>[^)]+)\)\s*:\s*(?:\r?\n)+(?<body>.*?)(?=\r?\ndef|$)")

Decimal.TryParse Fails to parse integer value

What am I missing:
decVal = Decimal.Parse(myAr[0]);
Or
Decimal.TryParse(myAr[0], out decVal);
Fails !
Input string was not in correct foramt.
myAr[0] is "678016".
Tried to add NumberStyle.Any and CultureInfo.InvarialtCulture but got the same results.
More info on the string:
it is concatenated with some letters in hebrew and a "\u200e" space between them. and then I use split(' ') to get the numbers back.
This is probably the source of this error, but when I check the myAr[0] in the watch it is pure string....

Guys I've found the answer, I'll rewrite the question for future generation.
The Original string was a concatenation of letters and numbers separated with a special sequence to preserve the order in a rtl situation: "\u200E".
The number where extracted later using string.split(' ') which seems to work OK (in the watch) be it caused the problem.
once I used string.split("\u200e").ToCharArray() I got the same results, but now the decimal.Parse is working.
It looks like the special char was still inside the string, invisible to the watch.

This is weird, on my machine (.NET 4) even this works:
Decimal.TryParse("asdf123&*", out someDecimal);
By works I mean that TryParse returns false, no exception is thrown.
Parse method may throw an exception - maybe you have some whitespace or string literally contains " (quotes)?

Regex to check whether "and,or,not,and not" in a word?

I have a seneario where i have to check a word contains "and,or,not,and not" but the regex which i have created fails. Can any body provide me the correct regex for this?
The regex which i have created is like this
Regex objAlphaPattern = new Regex(#"^[not|and not|and|not]");
if(objAlphaPattern.IsMatch(searchTerm))
{
//// code
}
But it always returns true.
I have tried the word "Pen and Pencil" and "Pen Pencil" but both returning true.. Can anybody help in providing correct regex?

You're starting with a begin anchor. If you don't want to only check if it happens at the beginning of the string then you shouldn't have the ^.
Also, you are using [] when you should be using (). Actually in this case you don't even need ().
[] indicates a character class. You just don't need that.
Regex objAlphaPattern = new Regex("\b(and|not)\b");
if(objAlphaPattern.IsMatch(searchTerm))
{
//// code
}
That should do the job.
I highly recommend The Regex Coach to help you build regex.
I also highly recommend http://www.regular-expressions.info/ as a reference.
EDIT:
I feel I should point out you don't really even need the object instance.
if(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(searchTerm, "\b(and|not)\b"))
{
//// code
}
You can just use the static method.
That's a very good point Tim:
"\band\b|\bnot\b"
Another very good point stema:
"\b(and|not)\b"

try
(not)|(and not)|(and)
instead

Your regular expression is wrong, it should be (and|not). There is no need to check for and not either, since it will fail at the first and.
You can use an online tool to check your regular expressions; such as http://regexpal.com/?flags=&regex=(and|not)&input=Pen%20and%20Pencil