How would you convert names to proper case in C#?
I have a list of names that I'd like to proof.
For example: mcdonalds to McDonalds or o'brien to O'Brien.
You could consider using a search engine to help you. Submit a query and see how the results have capitalized the name.
I wrote the following extension methods. Feel free to use them.
public static class StringExtensions
{
public static string ToProperCase( this string original )
{
if( original.IsNullOrEmpty() )
return original;
string result = _properNameRx.Replace( original.ToLower( CultureInfo.CurrentCulture ), HandleWord );
return result;
}
public static string WordToProperCase( this string word )
{
if( word.IsNullOrEmpty() )
return word;
if( word.Length > 1 )
return Char.ToUpper( word[0], CultureInfo.CurrentCulture ) + word.Substring( 1 );
return word.ToUpper( CultureInfo.CurrentCulture );
}
private static readonly Regex _properNameRx = new Regex( #"\b(\w+)\b" );
private static readonly string[] _prefixes = { "mc" };
private static string HandleWord( Match m )
{
string word = m.Groups[1].Value;
foreach( string prefix in _prefixes )
{
if( word.StartsWith( prefix, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase ) )
return prefix.WordToProperCase() + word.Substring( prefix.Length ).WordToProperCase();
}
return word.WordToProperCase();
}
}
There is absolutely no way for a computer just to magically know that the first "D" in "McDonalds" should be capitalized. So, I think there are two choices.
Someone out there may have a piece of software or a library that will do this for you.
Barring that, your only choice is to take the following approach: First, I'd look up the name in a dictionary of words that have "interesting" capitalization. Obviously you'd have to provide this dictionary yourself, unless one exists already. Second, apply an algorithm that corrects some of the obvious ones, like Celtic names beginning with O' and Mac and Mc, although given a large enough pool of names, such an algorithm will undoubtedly have a lot of false positives. Lastly, capitalize the first letter of every name that doesn't meet the first two criteria.
The hard part of this is the algorithms to decide on the capitalization. The string manipulation itself is pretty easy. There isn't a perfect way, since there are no "rules" for cases. One strategy might be a set of rules, such as "capitalize the first letter...usually" and "capitalize the 3rd letter if the first two letters are mc...usually"
Starting with a dictionary of real names and comparing them to your own name for matches will help. You could also take a dictionary of real names, generate a Markhov chain from it, and throw any new names at the Markhov chain to determine the capitalization. That's a crazy, complicated solution.
The ultimate perfect solution is to use humans to correct the data.
Doing this requires that your program be able to interpret the english language to an extent. At the very least be able to break down a string into a set of words. There is no API built-into the .Net Framework that can achieve this.
However if there was, you could use the following code.
public string ProperCase(string str, Func<string,bool> isWord) {
var word = new StringBuilder();
var cur = new StringBuilder();
for ( var i = 0; i < str.Length; i++ ) {
cur.Append(cur.Length == 0 ? Char.ToUpper(str[i]) : str[i]));
if ( isWord(cur.ToString()) {
word.Append(cur.ToString());
cur.Length = 0;
}
}
if ( cur.Length > 0 ) {
word.Append(cur);
}
return word.ToString();
}
It's not a perfect solution but it gives you a general idea of the outline
You could check the lower/mixed case surname against a dictionary (file) that has the correct casings in it, then return the 'real' value from the dictionary.
I had a quick google to see if one exists, but to no avail!
I'm planning on writing such a function, but will probably not go into too many edge cases... Below in psuedo-code with regex for matching...
start with /\b[A-Z]+\b/ as set matching, so each sequence of letters up against a word boundary, match as a set.
if the string is all uppercase...
lower-case the string
upper-case the first letter
do the following beginning of string replacements
Vanb -> VanB
Vanh -> VanH
Mc? -> Mc? (uppercase wildcard character)
Mac[^kh] -> Mac? (uppercase wildcard match)
With the replaced whole-name string do matching against other replacement sets like...
"De La " -> "de la "
That should catch most cases for names in particular... but a nice database of common name casing would be very nice.
Here was my solution. This hard-codes the names into the program but with a little work you could keep a text file outside of the program and read in the name exceptions (i.e. Van, Mc, Mac) and loop through them.
public static String toProperName(String name)
{
if (name != null)
{
if (name.Length >= 2 && name.ToLower().Substring(0, 2) == "mc") // Changes mcdonald to "McDonald"
return "Mc" + Regex.Replace(name.ToLower().Substring(2), #"\b[a-z]", m => m.Value.ToUpper());
if (name.Length >= 3 && name.ToLower().Substring(0, 3) == "van") // Changes vanwinkle to "VanWinkle"
return "Van" + Regex.Replace(name.ToLower().Substring(3), #"\b[a-z]", m => m.Value.ToUpper());
return Regex.Replace(name.ToLower(), #"\b[a-z]", m => m.Value.ToUpper()); // Changes to title case but also fixes
// appostrophes like O'HARE or o'hare to O'Hare
}
return "";
}
CultureInfo cultureInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
TextInfo textInfo = cultureInfo.TextInfo;
string txt = textInfo.ToTitleCase("texthere");
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I am learning Dotnet c# on my own.
how to find whether a given text exists or not in a string and if exists, how to find count of times the word has got repeated in that string. even if the word is misspelled, how to find it and print that the word is misspelled?
we can do this with collections or linq in c# but here i used string class and used contains method but iam struck after that.
if we can do this with help of linq, how?
because linq works with collections, Right?
you need a list in order to play with linq.
but here we are playing with string(paragraph).
how linq can be used find a word in paragraph?
kindly help.
here is what i have tried so far.
string str = "Education is a ray of light in the darkness. It certainly is a hope for a good life. Eudcation is a basic right of every Human on this Planet. To deny this right is evil. Uneducated youth is the worst thing for Humanity. Above all, the governments of all countries must ensure to spread Education";
for(int i = 0; i < i++)
if (str.Contains("Education") == true)
{
Console.WriteLine("found");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("not found");
}
You can make a string a string[] by splitting it by a character/string. Then you can use LINQ:
if(str.Split().Contains("makes"))
{
// note that the default Split without arguments also includes tabs and new-lines
}
If you don't care whether it is a word or just a sub-string, you can use str.Contains("makes") directly.
If you want to compare in a case insensitive way, use the overload of Contains:
if(str.Split().Contains("makes", StringComparer.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)){}
string str = "money makes many makes things";
var strArray = str.Split(" ");
var count = strArray.Count(x => x == "makes");
the simplest way is to use Split extension to split the string into an array of words.
here is an example :
var words = str.Split(' ');
if(words.Length > 0)
{
foreach(var word in words)
{
if(word.IndexOf("makes", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != -1)
{
Console.WriteLine("found");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("not found");
}
}
}
Now, since you just want the count of number word occurrences, you can use LINQ to do that in a single line like this :
var totalOccurrences = str.Split(' ').Count(x=> x.IndexOf("makes", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) != -1);
Note that StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase is required if you want a case-insensitive comparison.
I really don't know Regular Expression syntax that well, but I am using a simple highlighting plug-in for jQuery, and I need it to select a word whether it has 1 or less apostrophes at any number of different indexes or none at all.
For example, say I have a string: Tods (note that this string could be anything).
I need a regular expression that could still select: Tod's, To'ds, T'ods, or 'Tods. (Note that I did not include an apostrophe at the last index, as this is not necessary, although, it probably wouldn't hurt anything).
So far I have this code in jQuery...:
$("input.highlightTerm").each(function () {
$(".resultValue").highlight($(this).val());
});
...where $(this).val() is the string that will be highlighted.
It is also possible for me to do this in C#, as I populate the hidden input fields that this jQuery code picks up ($("input.highlightTerm")) on server-side, using C#.
Simple C# Razor Syntax:
for (var n = 0; n < searchTermsArray.Length; n++)
{
<input class="highlightTerm" type="hidden" value="#searchTermsArray[n]" />
}
What is the regular expression syntax I need to get this done?
More Examples of What Should and Shouldn't Match:
T'o'd's [Should Match]
Tod's [Should Match]
'Tods' [Should Match]
'Tods OR Tods' [Really doesn't matter, because of how the plug-in works, but I guess Should Match, is preferred]
Tod''s [Shouldn't Match]
''Tods [Shouldn't Match]
--Pretty much I only want matches if there is 1 or less apostrophes among any number of different indexes within the string.
First make sure the string has length and that there are no double-apostrophes (this rules out triples and higher as well). Then test the string for containing only word characters or apostrophes.
var re = /^[\w']*$/;
function checkForApostrophe(str) {
if ( !str.length ) { return; }
if ( str.indexOf("''") !== -1 ) { return; }
if ( str.charAt(str.length-1) === "'" ) { return; }
return re.test(str);
}
Replace '\w' in the regex with [a-zA-Z], possibly including [0-9] depending on your requirements.
The question is a little difficult to understand exactly what you want, so if this isn't quite right please comment.
I think after reading the comments on the other answers, I've figured out what it is you're going for. You don't need a single regex that can do this for any possible input, you already have input, and you need to build a regex that matches it and its variations. What you need to do is this.
var re = new RegExp("'?" + "tods".split("").join("'?") + "'?")
This will create a regex that matches in the way you're describing, provided it's OK that it also matches the original string.
In this case, the above line builds this regex:
/'?t'?o'?d'?s'?/
This may still not be 100% right. You know, since I don't have that highlight function around myself to play with, but I think it should get you on the right track.
I think you have to do something like this !
function checkForApostrophe(str) {
var length = str.length;
if (length != 0)
{
// Makes sure string contains only Alphabets, numbers and apostrophe : Nothing else
if (str.matches("[a-zA-Z0-9']*")) {
// makes sure there is only one or zero apostrophe
if ((str.indexOf("'") != -1) && (str.indexOf("'") == str.lastIndexOf("'"))) {
// Makes sure there is no apostrophe stranded at the end
if (str.lastIndexOf("'") == length - 1)
return false
else
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}
else {
return false;
}
}
}
This is tough to explain enough to ask the question, but i'll try:
I have two possibilities of user input:
S01E05 or 0105 (two different input strings)
which both translate to season 01, episode 05
but if they user inputs it backwards E05S01 or 0501, i need to be able to return the same result, Season 01 Episode 05
The control for this would be the user defining the format of the original filename with something like this:
"SssEee" -- uppercase 'S' denoting that the following lowercase 's' belong to Season and uppercase 'E' denoting that the following lowercase 'e' belong to Episode. So if the user decides to define the format as EeeSss then my function should still return the same result since it knows which numbers belong to season or episode.
I don't have anything working quite yet to share, but what I was toying with is a loop that builds the regex pattern. The function, so far, accepts the user format and the file name:
public static int(string userFormat, string fileName)
{
}
the userFormat would be a string and look something like this:
t.t.t.SssEee
or even
t.SssEee
where t is for title, and the rest you know.
The file name might look like this:
battlestar.galactica.S01E05.mkv
Ive got the function that extracts the title from the file name by using the userFormat to build the regex string
public static string GetTitle(string userFormat, string fileName)
{
string pattern = "^";
char positionChar;
string fileTitle;
for (short i = 0; i < userFormat.Length; i++)
{
positionChar = userFormat[i];
//build the regex pattern
if (positionChar == 't')
{
pattern += #"\w+";
}
else if (positionChar == '#')
{
pattern += #"\d+";
}
else if (positionChar == ' ')
{
pattern += #"\s+";
}
else
pattern += positionChar;
}
//pulls out the title with or without the delimiter
Match title = Regex.Match(fileName, pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
fileTitle = title.Groups[0].Value;
//remove the delimiter
string[] tempString = fileTitle.Split(#"\/.-<>".ToCharArray());
fileTitle = "";
foreach (string part in tempString)
{
fileTitle += part + " ";
}
return CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(fileTitle);
}
but im kind of stumped on how to do the extraction of the episode and season numbers. In my head im thinking the process would look something like:
Look through the userFormat string to find the uppercase S
Determine how many lowercase 's' are following the uppercase S
Build the regex expression that describes this
Search through the file name and find that pattern
Extract the number from that pattern
Sounds simple enough but im having a hard time putting it into actions. The complication being the the fact that the format in the filename could be S01E05 or it could be simply 0105. Either scenario would be identified by the user when they define the format.
Ex 1. the file name is battlestar.galactica.S01E05
the user format submitted will be t.t.?ss?ee
Ex 2. the file name is battlestar.galactica.0105
the user format submitted will be t.t.SssEee
Ex 3. the file name is battlestar.galactica.0501
the user format submitted will be t.t.EeeSss
Sorry for the book... the concept is simple, the regex function should be dynamic, allowing the user to define the format of a file name to where my method can generate the expression and use it to extract information from the file name. Something is telling me that this is simpler than it seems... but im at a loss. lol... any suggestions?
So if I read this right, you know where the the Season/Episode number is in the string because the user has told you. That is, you have t.t.<number>.more.stuff. And <number> can take one of these forms:
SssEee
EeeSss
ssee
eess
Or did you say that the user can define how many digits will be used for season and episode? That is, could it be S01E123?
I'm not sure you need a regex for this. Since you know the format, and it appears that things are separated by periods (I assume that there can't be periods in the individual fields), you should be able to use String.Split to extract the pieces, and you know from the user's format where the Season/Episode is in the resulting array. So you now have a string that takes one of the forms above.
You have the user's format definition and the Season/Episode number. You should be able to write a loop that steps through the two strings together and extracts the necessary information, or issues an error.
string UserFormat = "SssEee";
string EpisodeNumber = "0105";
int ifmt = 0;
int iepi = 0;
int season = 0;
int episode = 0;
while (ifmt <= UserFormat.Length && iepi < EpisodeNumber.Length)
{
if ((UserFormat[ifmt] == "S" || UserFormat[ifmt] == "E"))
{
if (EpisodeNumber[iepi] == UserFormat[ifmt])
{
++iepi;
}
else if (!char.IsDigit(EpisodeNumber[iepi]))
{
// Error! Chars didn't match, and it wasn't a digit.
break;
}
++ifmt;
}
else
{
char c = EpisodeNumber[iepi];
if (!char.IsDigit(c))
{
// error. Expected digit.
}
if (UserFormat[ifmt] == 'e')
{
episode = (episode * 10) + (int)c - (int)'0';
}
else if (UserFormat[ifmt] == 's')
{
season = (season * 10) + (int)c - (int)'0';
}
else
{
// user format is broken
break;
}
++iepi;
++ifmt;
}
}
Note that you'll probably have to do some checking to see that the lengths are correct. That is, the code above will accept S01E1 when the user's format is SssEee. There's a bit more error handling that you can add, depending on how worried you are about bad input. But I think this gives you the gist of the idea.
I have to think that's going to be a whole lot easier than trying to dynamically build regular expressions.
After #Sinaesthetic answered my question we can reduce his original post to:
The challenge is to receive any of these inputs:
0105 (if your input is 0105 you assume SxxEyy)
S01E05
E05S01 OR
1x05 (read as season 1 episode 5)
and transform any of these inputs into: S01E05
At this point title and file format are irrelevant, they just get tacked on to the ends.
Based on that the following code will always result in 'Battlestar.Galactica.S01E05.mkv'
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] inputs = new string[6] { "E05S01", "S01E05", "0105", "105", "1x05", "1x5" };
foreach (string input in inputs)
{
Console.WriteLine(FormatEpisodeTitle("Battlestar.Galactica", input, "mkv"));
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
private static string FormatEpisodeTitle(string showTitle, string identifier, string fileFormat)
{
//first make identifier upper case
identifier = identifier.ToUpper();
//normalize for SssEee & EeeSee
if (identifier.IndexOf('S') > identifier.IndexOf('E'))
{
identifier = identifier.Substring(identifier.IndexOf('S')) + identifier.Substring(identifier.IndexOf('E'), identifier.IndexOf('S'));
}
//now get rid of S and replace E with x as needed:
identifier = identifier.Replace("S", string.Empty).Replace("E", "X");
//at this point, if there isn't an "X" we need one, as in 105 or 0105
if (identifier.IndexOf('X') == -1)
{
identifier = identifier.Substring(0, identifier.Length - 2) + "X" + identifier.Substring(identifier.Length - 2);
}
//now split by the 'X'
string[] identifiers = identifier.Split('X');
// and put it back together:
identifier = 'S' + identifiers[0].PadLeft(2, '0') + 'E' + identifiers[1].PadLeft(2, '0');
//tack it all together
return showTitle + '.' + identifier + '.' + fileFormat;
}
I am trying to take all the hardcoded strings in a .cs file and load it from a constant file.
For instance
string capital="Washington";
should be loaded as
string capital=Constants.capital;
and that will be added in Constants.cs
public final const capital="Washington";
I need a java/C# snippet to do this.I can't use any third party tools.Any help on this?
EDIT:
After reading the comments and answers I get a feeling I am not clear.I just want a way to replace all hard coded constants which will be having "" and rip that off and replace it with the Constants. and add that property in Constants.cs.This can be a simple text processing as well.
A few hints that should get you started:
Assume that your string processor function is called ProcessStrings.
1) Include Constants.cs into the same project as the ProcessStrings function, so it gets compiled in with the refactoring code.
2) Reflect over your Constants class to build a Dictionary of language strings to constant names, something like:
Dictionary<String, String> constantList = new Dictionary<String, String>();
FieldInfo[] fields = typeof(Constants).GetFields(BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);
String constantValue;
foreach (FieldInfo field in fields)
{
if (field.FieldType == typeof(String))
{
constantValue = (string)field.GetValue(null);
constantList.Add(constantValue, field.Name);
}
}
3) constantList should now contain the full list of Constant names, indexed by the string they represent.
4) Grab all the lines from the file (using File.ReadAllLines).
5) Now iterate over the lines. Something like the following should allow you to ignore lines that you shouldn't be processing.
//check if the line is a comment or xml comment
if (Regex.IsMatch(lines[idx], #"^\s*//"))
continue;
//check if the entry is an attribute
if (Regex.IsMatch(lines[idx], #"^\s*\["))
continue;
//check if the line is part of a block comment (assuming a * at the start of the line)
if (Regex.IsMatch(lines[idx], #"^\s*(/\*+|\*+)"))
continue;
//check if the line has been marked as ignored
//(this is something handy I use to mark a string to be ignored for any reason, just put //IgnoreString at the end of the line)
if (Regex.IsMatch(lines[idx], #"//\s*IgnoreString\s*$"))
continue;
6) Now, match any quoted strings on the line, then go through each match and check it for a few conditions. You can remove some of these conditions if needs be.
MatchCollection mC = Regex.Matches(lines[idx], "#?\"([^\"]+)\"");
foreach (Match m in mC)
{
if (
// Detect format insertion markers that are on their own and ignore them,
!Regex.IsMatch(m.Value, #"""\s*\{\d(:\d+)?\}\s*""") &&
//or check for strings of single character length that are not proper characters (-, /, etc)
!Regex.IsMatch(m.Value, #"""\s*\\?[^\w]\s*""") &&
//check for digit only strings, allowing for decimal places and an optional percentage or multiplier indicator
!Regex.IsMatch(m.Value, #"""[\d.]+[%|x]?""") &&
//check for array indexers
!(m.Index <= lines[idx].Length && lines[idx][m.Index - 1] == '[' && lines[idx][m.Index + m.Length] == ']') &&
)
{
String toCheck = m.Groups[1].Value;
//look up the string we found in our list of constants
if (constantList.ContainsKey(toCheck))
{
String replaceString;
replaceString = "Constants." + constants[toCheck];
//replace the line in the file
lines[idx] = lines[idx].Replace("\"" + m.Groups[1].Value + "\"", replaceString);
}
else
{
//See Point 8....
}
}
7) Now join the array of lines back up, and write it back to the file. That should get you most of the way.
8) To get it to generate constants for strings you don't already have an entry for, in the else block for looking up the string,
generate a name for the constant from the string (I just removed all special characters and spaces from the string and limited it to 10 words). Then use that name and the original string (from the toCheck variable in point 6) to make a constant declaration and insert it into Constants.cs.
Then when you run the function again, those new constants will be used.
I don't know if there is any such code available, but I am providing some guidelines on how it can be implemented.
You can write a macro/standalone application (I think macro is a better option)
Parse current document or all the files in the project/solution
Write a regular expression for finding the strings (what about strings in XAML?). something like [string]([a-z A-Z0-9])["]([a-z A-Z0-9])["][;] -- this is not valid, I have just provide for discussion
Extract the constant from code.
Check if similar string is already there in your static class
If not found, insert new entry in static class
Replace string with the variable name
Goto step 2
Is there a reason why you can't put these into a static class or just in a file in your application? You can put constants anywhere and as long as they are scoped properly you can access them from everywhere.
public const string capital = "Washington";
if const doesn't work in static class, then it would be
public static readonly string capital = "Washington";
if you really want to do it the way you describe, read the file with a streamreader, split by \r\n, check if the first thing is "string", and then do all your replacements on that string element...
make sure that every time you change that string declaration, you add the nessesary lines to the other file.
You can create a class project for your constants, or if you have a helper class project, you can add a new class for you constants (Constants.cs).
public static class Constants
{
public const string CAPITAL_Washington = "Washington";
}
You can now use this:
string capital = Constants.CAPITAL_Washington;
You might as well name your constants quite specific.
I have a regular expression to match 2 different number formats: \=(?[0-9]+)\?|\+(?[0-9]+)\?
This should return 9876543 as its Value for ;1234567890123456?+1234567890123456789012345123=9876543? and ;1234567890123456?+9876543?
What I would like is to be able to return another value along with the matched 'Value'.
So, for example, if the first string was matched, I'd like it to return:
Value:
9876543
Format:
LongFormat
And if matched in the second string:
Value:
9876543
Format:
ShortFormat
Is this possible?
Another option, which is not quite the solution you wanted, but saves you using two separate regexes, is to use named groups, if your implementation supports it.
Here is some C#:
var regex = new Regex(#"\=(?<Long>[0-9]+)\?|\+(?<Short>[0-9]+)\?");
string test1 = ";1234567890123456?+1234567890123456789012345123=9876543?";
string test2 = ";1234567890123456?+9876543?";
var match = regex.Match(test1);
Console.WriteLine("Long: {0}", match.Groups["Long"]); // 9876543
Console.WriteLine("Short: {0}", match.Groups["Short"]); // blank
match = regex.Match(test2);
Console.WriteLine("Long: {0}", match.Groups["Long"]); // blank
Console.WriteLine("Short: {0}", match.Groups["Short"]); // 9876543
Basically just modify your regex to include the names, and then regex.Groups[GroupName] will either have a value or wont. You could even just use the Success property of the group to know which matched (match.Groups["Long"].Success).
UPDATE:
You can get the group name out of the match, with the following code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var regex = new Regex(#"\=(?<Long>[0-9]+)\?|\+(?<Short>[0-9]+)\?");
string test1 = ";1234567890123456?+1234567890123456789012345123=9876543?";
string test2 = ";1234567890123456?+9876543?";
ShowGroupMatches(regex, test1);
ShowGroupMatches(regex, test2);
Console.ReadLine();
}
private static void ShowGroupMatches(Regex regex, string testCase)
{
int i = 0;
foreach (Group grp in regex.Match(testCase).Groups)
{
if (grp.Success && i != 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(regex.GroupNameFromNumber(i) + " : " + grp.Value);
}
i++;
}
}
I'm ignoring the 0th group, because that is always the entire match in .NET
No, you can't match text that isn't there. The match can only return a substring of the target.
You essentially want to match against two patterns and take different actions in each case. See if you can separate them in your code:
if match(\=(?[0-9]+)\?) then
return 'Value: ' + match + 'Format: LongFormat'
else if match(\+(?[0-9]+)\?) then
return 'Value: ' + match + 'Format: ShortFormat'
(Excuse the dodgy pseudocode, but you get the idea.)
You can't match text that isn't there - but, depending on what language you're using, you can process what you match, and conditionally add text based on what is there.
With some implementations of regex, you can specify a "callback function" which allows you to run logic against each result.
Here's a pseudo-code example:
Input.replaceAll( /[+=][0-9]+(?=\?)/ , formatValue );
formatValue : function(match,groups)
{
switch( left(match,1) )
{
case '+' : Format = 'Short'; break;
case '=' : Format = 'Long'; break;
default : Format = 'Unknown'; break;
}
Value : match.replace('[+=]');
return 'Value: '+Value+' Format: ' + Format;
}
What that will do, in a language that supports regex callbacks, is execute the formatValue function every time it finds a match, and use the result of the function as the replacement text.
You haven't specified which implementation you're using, so this may or not be possible for you, but it is definitely worth checking out.