[c#] C# Regex for Guid

I need to parse through a string and add single quotes around each Guid value. I was thinking I could use a Regex to do this but I'm not exactly a Regex guru.

Is there a good Regex to use to identify a Guid?

My second question is once I've found a valid regex I'm assuming I would use Regex.Replace(String, String, MatchEvaluator) but I'm not quite sure of the syntax. Maybe something like:

return Regex.Replace(stringToFindMatch, GuidRegex, match =>
{
    return string.Format("'{0}'", match.Groups[0].ToString());
});

A string that I'm trying to parse may look like this:

"SELECT passwordco0_.PASSWORD_CONFIG_ID as PASSWORD1_46_0_, FROM PASSWORD_CONFIG passwordco0_ WHERE passwordco0_.PASSWORD_CONFIG_ID=baf04077-a3c0-454b-ac6f-9fec00b8e170; @p0 = baf04077-a3c0-454b-ac6f-9fec00b8e170 [Type: Guid (0)]"

Most basic regex is following:

(^([0-9A-Fa-f]{8}[-][0-9A-Fa-f]{4}[-][0-9A-Fa-f]{4}[-][0-9A-Fa-f]{4}[-][0-9A-Fa-f]{12})$) 

or you could paste it here.

Hope this saves you some time.

For C# .Net to find and replace any guid looking string from the given text,

Use this RegEx:

[({]?[a-fA-F0-9]{8}[-]?([a-fA-F0-9]{4}[-]?){3}[a-fA-F0-9]{12}[})]?

Example C# code:

var result = Regex.Replace(
      source, 
      @"[({]?[a-fA-F0-9]{8}[-]?([a-fA-F0-9]{4}[-]?){3}[a-fA-F0-9]{12}[})]?", 
      @"${ __UUID}", 
      RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
);

Surely works! And it matches & replaces the following styles, which are all equivalent and acceptable formats for a GUID.

"aa761232bd4211cfaacd00aa0057b243" 
"AA761232-BD42-11CF-AACD-00AA0057B243" 
"{AA761232-BD42-11CF-AACD-00AA0057B243}" 
"(AA761232-BD42-11CF-AACD-00AA0057B243)" 

You can easily auto-generate the C# code using: http://regexhero.net/tester/.

Its free.

Here is how I did it:

The website then auto-generates the .NET code:

string strRegex = @"\b[A-F0-9]{8}(?:-[A-F0-9]{4}){3}-[A-F0-9]{12}\b";
Regex myRegex = new Regex(strRegex, RegexOptions.None);
string strTargetString = @"     {CD73FAD2-E226-4715-B6FA-14EDF0764162}.Debug|x64.ActiveCfg =         Debug|x64";
string strReplace = @"""$0""";

return myRegex.Replace(strTargetString, strReplace);

In .NET Framework 4 there is enhancement System.Guid structure, These includes new TryParse and TryParseExact methods to Parse GUID. Here is example for this.

    //Generate New GUID
    Guid objGuid = Guid.NewGuid();
    //Take invalid guid format
    string strGUID = "aaa-a-a-a-a";

    Guid newGuid;

    if (Guid.TryParse(objGuid.ToString(), out newGuid) == true)
    {
        Response.Write(string.Format("<br/>{0} is Valid GUID.", objGuid.ToString()));
    }
    else
    {
        Response.Write(string.Format("<br/>{0} is InValid GUID.", objGuid.ToString()));
    }


    Guid newTmpGuid;

    if (Guid.TryParse(strGUID, out newTmpGuid) == true)
    {
        Response.Write(string.Format("<br/>{0} is Valid GUID.", strGUID));
    }
    else
    {
        Response.Write(string.Format("<br/>{0} is InValid GUID.", strGUID));
    }

In this example we create new guid object and also take one string variable which has invalid guid. After that we use TryParse method to validate that both variable has valid guid format or not. By running example you can see that string variable has not valid guid format and it gives message of "InValid guid". If string variable has valid guid than this will return true in TryParse method.

I use an easier regex pattern

^[0-9A-Fa-f\-]{36}$