Best way to replace tokens in a large text template

Question

I have a large text template which needs tokenized sections replaced by other text. The tokens look something like this: ##USERNAME##. My first instinct is just to use Stri

Answer 1

Had to do something similar recently. What I did was:

• make a method that takes a dictionary (key = token name, value = the text you need to insert)
• Get all matches to your token format (##.+?## in your case I guess, not that good at regular expressions :P) using Regex.Matches(input, regular expression)
• foreach over the results, using the dictionary to find the insert value for your token.
• return result.

Done ;-)

If you want to test your regexes I can suggest the regulator.