Replace string

Question

Hello everyone,

I have a string that contains some IP and port numbers in this format:

108.177.3.26:25

each block in IP can be from 1 to 3 digits, and port after : can be up to 5 digits (65535)

No need to validate it, just gonna replace all those blocks with something like:

108.177.3.26 port 25

Now:

data string = data string . Replace (":", " port ")

seems the easiest, but will also replace all other : in the source data, any short way to do it?

or need to parse chars before and after :

Thanks for help

Answer 1

Check this (in C#):

data_string = Regex.Replace( data_string, @"(?<=(?<!\d)(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}):(?=\d{1,5}(?!\d))", " port " );