String.Replace ignoring case

Question

I have a string called \"hello world\"

I need to replace the word \"world\" to \"csharp\"

for this I use:

string.Replace(\"World\", \"csharp\         


        

Answer 1

Extending Petrucio's answer with Regex.Escape on the search string, and escaping matched group as suggested in Steve B's answer (and some minor changes to my taste):

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string ReplaceIgnoreCase(this string str, string from, string to)
    {
        return Regex.Replace(str, Regex.Escape(from), to.Replace("$", "$$"), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
    }
}

Which will produce the following expected results:

Console.WriteLine("(heLLo) wOrld".ReplaceIgnoreCase("(hello) world", "Hi $1 Universe")); // Hi $1 Universe
Console.WriteLine("heLLo wOrld".ReplaceIgnoreCase("(hello) world", "Hi $1 Universe"));   // heLLo wOrld

However without performing the escapes you would get the following, which is not an expected behaviour from a String.Replace that is just case-insensitive:

Console.WriteLine("(heLLo) wOrld".ReplaceIgnoreCase_NoEscaping("(hello) world", "Hi $1 Universe")); // (heLLo) wOrld
Console.WriteLine("heLLo wOrld".ReplaceIgnoreCase_NoEscaping("(hello) world", "Hi $1 Universe"));   // Hi heLLo Universe