General Replace Questions

[sputnik]

1. In the old VBScript, there was a compareMethod (binary or text, which with text, I could compare case) but I don't find anything like that in the new .Net Replace method. I know I can use the old way, but I'd like to use the new Replace method. I just need a choice of comparing case or not
Is there anything like this?

2. Let's say I have a long string, and I am using the Replace method - - it would be nice to get the count of instances replaced, and I'm sure that if I read line by line, I could actually get that count, but it would take to long.
Is there a way, using the Replace method, to get a count of how many actual replacements were made?

 

[jmcilhinney]

1. You'd have to use Regex.Replace instead of String.Replace.

2. No there isn't. If you follow my previous advice though, you could use the same Regex to get a match list and then get the length of that before calling Replace.