How to remove BBCode from string in .Net

Question

I am trying to remove all BBCode tags from a string.

[url]www.google.com[/url]

becomes

www.google.com

I have a regex that works in php to find them all, just dont know how to remove them in .net

RegEx for BBCode Search

|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si

+2

Landmine May 13 '10 at 11:19 PM

1 answer

Mark byers · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-13T23:23:02+0000

Your regex looks like it won't work, so I tried something else:

string s = "[url]www.google.com[/url] [url=www.google.com]www.google.com[/url]";
s = Regex.Replace(s, @"\[[^]]+\]", "");

Result:

www.google.com www.google.com

Also, you will need this instruction located at the top of the file to make this work:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;