Using replace with regular expressions - VBA

Question

I would like to format a text. I mean something like this: I'd like to transform this:

"something'text between apostrophes'text"

into

"something 'text between apostrophes' text"

I want to add spaces from both sides, but keep te string in '' the same. I tried to do it like this:

  Arkusz1.Cells(1, 1).Replace What:="'*'" Replacement:=" '*' "

But its result is:

"something '*' text"

Arkusz1.Cells(1,1) contains the string I want to replace. Is it possible to do this? Thanks

Answer 1

You can try this regex:

('[^']+')

and replace by this:

" $1 "

Sample Source

Dim Regex As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex
Dim SubjectString As String = "something 'text between apostrophes' text"
Dim ResultString As String = Regex.Replace(SubjectString, "('[^']+')", " $1 ")
Console.WriteLine(ResultString)    

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