Replace whitespace outside quotes using regular expression

Question

Using C#, I need to prepare a search text for searching in a SQL Server database using the LIKE command by replacing all whitespace outside quotes with a % character. Exampl

Answer 1

Would have done something like this:

 private static string RemoveUnquotedWhiteSpaces(string text)
 {    
    string result = String.Empty;
    var parts = text.Split('"');
    for(int i = 0; i < parts.Length; i++)
    {
       if (i % 2 == 0) result += Regex.Replace(parts[i], " ", "");
       else result += String.Format("\"{0}\"", parts[i]);
    }
    return result
  }