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Remove single quote characters from specific field inside JSON data

I have this json data string below, which I need to do some cleaning before I can Deserialize into an object in C#. Here's my json string:
{'data':[
{'ID':'01','Name':'Name 1','Description':'abc','Skills':[{'Type':'abc','Technical':'abc','Description':'abc'}],'Status':false,'Inactive':0},
{'ID':'02','Name':'Name 2','Description':'abc','Skills':[{'Type':'abc','Technical':'abc','Description':'abc'}],'Status':false,'Inactive':0},
{'ID':'03','Name':'Name 3','Description':'abc','Skills':[{'Type':'abc','Technical':'abc','Description':'abc'}],'Status':false,'Inactive':1}]}
What I'm trying to do is REMOVE single quote (') character from the following field in the above data:
'Skills':[{'Type':'abc','Technical':'abc','Description':'abc'}]
So what I need to achieve is to have "Skills" field to look like this:
'Skills':[{Type:abc,Technical:abc,Description:abc}]
I designed this Regex patter:
(?<='Skills':\[\{)(.*?)(?=\}\],)
It matches the string below, but I don't know how to exclude single quotes.
'Type':'abc','Technical':'abc','Description':'abc'
Can someone please help?

It's better to modify the source to get pretty formatted JSON, it's not standard JSON format.
if you don't have access to modify the source output, you can use this :
string content = Console.ReadLine();
var matchResult = new Regex("(?<='Skills':).*?}]").Matches(content);
foreach(Match match in matchResult)
{
string matchValueWithoutSingleQuote = match.Value.Replace("'", string.Empty);
content = content.Replace(match.Value, matchValueWithoutSingleQuote);
}
Console.WriteLine(content);
Console.ReadLine();
the output is :
{'data':[
{'ID':'01','Name':'Name 1','Description':'abc','Skills':[{Type:abc,Technical:abc,Description:abc}],'Status':false,'Inactive':0},
{'ID':'02','Name':'Name 2','Description':'abc','Skills':[{Type:abc,Technical:abc,Description:abc}],'Status':false,'Inactive':0},
{'ID':'03','Name':'Name 3','Description':'abc','Skills':[{Type:abc,Technical:abc,Description:abc}],'Status':false,'Inactive':1}]}
Linq version :
string content = Console.ReadLine();
var matchResult = new Regex("(?<='Skills':).*?}]").Matches(content);
var jsonWithNormalizedSkillField = matchResult.Cast<Match>().Select(s => content.Replace(s.Value, s.Value.Replace("'", string.Empty))).FirstOrDefault();
Console.WriteLine(jsonWithNormalizedSkillField);
Console.ReadLine();

String.Split not working to get values

I have an XML which is passes as a string variable to me. I want to get the value of specific tags from that XML. Following is the XML I have and what I'm trying to achieve:
<code>
string xmlData = #"
<HEADER>
<TYPE>AAA</TYPE>
<SUBTYPE>ANNUAL</SUBTYPE>
<TYPEID>12345</TYPEID>
<SUBTYPEID>56789</SUBTYPEID>
<ACTIVITY>C</ACTION>
</HEADER>";
var typeId = data.Split("<TYPEID>")[0]; //Requirement
var activity = data.Split("<ACTIVITY>")[0]; //Requirement
</code>
I know string.Split(); doesn't work here as it requires a single character only. Other alternate is to use regex which seems a bit threatening to me. Although I have tried to work with it but doesn't getting the desired result. Can someone help with the regex code?

You should have used XML Parsing to get the values but since you are trying split to split a string from a string and not char you can choose
string typeId = xmlData.Split(new string[] { "<TYPEID>" }, StringSplitOptions.None)[1];
string typeIdVal = typeId.Split(new string[] { "</TYPEID>" }, StringSplitOptions.None)[0];
and it looks very neat and clean with XML Parsing
XmlDocument xmlDoc= new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load("yourXMLFile.xml");
XmlNodeList XTypeID = xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("TYPEID");
string TypeID = XTypeID[0].InnerText;
You can also choose SubString like
string typeidsubstr = xmlData.Substring(xmlData.IndexOf("<TYPEID>") + 8, xmlData.IndexOf("</TYPEID>") - (xmlData.IndexOf("<TYPEID>") + 8));
I used +8 because the length of <TYPEID> is 8 you can also choose it string.length to evaluate the result.

You can use XML Linq objects to parse these.
NB: There is a typo in the ACTIVITY element, the closing tag should be /ACTIVITY, not /ACTION! (I've corrected below)
string xmlData = #"<HEADER>
<TYPE>AAA</TYPE>
<SUBTYPE>ANNUAL</SUBTYPE>
<TYPEID>12345</TYPEID>
<SUBTYPEID>56789</SUBTYPEID>
<ACTIVITY>C</ACTIVITY>
</HEADER>";
var doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlData);
var typeId = doc.Root.Elements("TYPEID").First().Value;
var activity = doc.Root.Elements("ACTIVITY").First().Value;

How to format some XML and turn it into a string array holding the individual lines

Whats the best way to turn some Xml into a well indented/formatted Xml and access the individual lines of the resulting Xml afterwards? I guess the first part of the problem (indenting/formatting) can be solved using an XmlTextWriter or something similar. But how do I get an array of lines out of the result? Do I have to split the string again? Are there more elegant options?
Thanks in advance!

How to pretty print XML?
string FormatXml(String Xml)
{
try
{
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(Xml);
return doc.ToString();
}
catch (Exception)
{
return Xml;
}
}
Alternative is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/203581/1163786
How to build an array with lines from the XML?
string[] lines = xml.Split(new string[] { "\r\n", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
Are there more elegant options?
That depends on what "elegant" means to you.
If you find regular expressions elegant and powerful, then the solution above is amongst the elegant solutions. If you prefer non-regexp solutions, then utilizing the StringReader might be worth looking into:
using (System.IO.StringReader reader = new System.IO.StringReader(xml)) {
string[] lines = = reader.ReadLine();
}

The error in getting the exact value from the XML node when the '\' value is in string and that string in passed used as xml instead of file

I am having XML in a String as below
String s = #<user>abc.int\abhi</user>
but when i write the following code
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.InnerXml = s;
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
String User = root.SelectSingleNode("user");
The User has the value abc.int\\abhi instead of abc.int\abhi the '\' character appears twice in the string.
Thank you in advance.

Do you check that value in VS watch window? If so, it is normal to display \, because watch window shows string as if it was written in code, not the real string.
In code, if you want to enter \ into a string, you have to write string s = "\\"; And this will create actual string with \ in it.
try outputting your string to console or messagebox, and you should see, that it is correct.

convert string to a xml file?

How to save a well formed xml string to a xml file ?
Thanks in advance...
Hi All.... I got the answer
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml("WellFormedXMLString");
xmlDoc.Save(#"drive:\name.xml");

What's wrong with simply writing your string to disk?
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(#"C:\file.xml"))
{
writer.Write("Xml data");
writer.Flush();
}
or if you want to "test" it:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
try
{
doc.LoadXml(data);
}
catch
{
// Fix it
}
doc.Save(#"C:\file.xml");

You can write any string to disk like so:
File.WriteAllText(#"c:\myfile.xml", yourXmlString);
If you have a string that is not a well-formed xml string and you want to convert that to some other format, you will have to give us some example of what you want to do.

I am no C# programmer, but I guess you need something like this:
xmlwriter tutorial

Save the string straight onto the disk. No need to convert it into XML.

Why do you need xml if it's just a string ? You could save a text file with the variabele name, and the string inside as variable value.
for example
MyTextVar1.txt would contain "MyTestSTring"
then you could get the var by:
var mystring = GetFileAsString( "MyTextVar1.txt" );

The xml document is a text file itself. you only need to change its extension.