Find and Replace with Regular Expression

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Hi,

Can anybody help me with writing a regular expression which will find and Replace
someVariable.ToString()

to

Convert.ToString(someVariable)

Let me know if this is Possible or i am just expecting too much :-)

Reference:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/word-help/find-and-replace-text-by-using-regular-expressions-advanced-HA102350661.aspx[^]

Visual Studio Find/Replace Regular Expression Usage[^]

Posted 25-Mar-14 3:59am

payne173

Updated 25-Mar-14 4:01am

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Matt T Heffron 25-Mar-14 14:42pm

The problem you're likely to find is that your calls to .ToString() will not necessarily be just from a variable, but possibly some expression.
E.g.:
(integerVariable1 + integerVariable2).ToString()
or
someMethod(arg1, arg2).ToString()
A regex to handle any possible cases is not likely to be practical.
Also, what about the cases where there are parameters to the .ToString().....?

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Hanumant Gade · Answer 1 · 2014-03-25T04:07:00

Solution 1

<variable>.TOString() and Convert.TOString(<variable>) both will work. But if Variable have a null value then <variable>.TOString() will raise a nullException.

Posted 25-Mar-14 4:07am

Hanumant Gade

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