Replace Multiple String Elements in C

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Is there a better way of doing this      MyString Trim   Replace   amp     and   Replace          Replace                      Replace       -   Replace          Replace          ToLower      I ve extended the string class to keep it down to one job but is there a quicker way   public static class StringExtension       public static string clean this string s                return s Replace   amp     and   Replace          Replace                             Replace       -   Replace          Replace                           Replace  eacute          ToLower                Just for fun  and to stop the arguments in the comments  I ve shoved a gist up benchmarking the various examples below      https   gist github com ChrisMcKee 5937656   The regex option scores terribly  the dictionary option comes up the fastest  the long winded version of the stringbuilder replace is slightly faster than the short hand

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There is one thing that may be optimized in the suggested solutions  Having many calls to Replace   makes the code to do multiple passes over the same string  With very long strings the solutions may be slow because of CPU cache capacity misses  May be one should consider replacing multiple strings in a single pass

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Quicker - no  More effective - yes  if you will use the StringBuilder class  With your implementation each operation generates a copy of a string which under circumstances may impair performance  Strings are immutable objects so each operation just returns a modified copy   If you expect this method to be actively called on multiple Strings of significant length  it might be better to  migrate  its implementation onto the StringBuilder class  With it any modification is performed directly on that instance  so you spare unnecessary copy operations   public static class StringExtention       public static string clean this string s                StringBuilder sb   new StringBuilder  s            sb Replace   amp     and            sb Replace                   sb Replace                     sb Replace       -            sb Replace                   sb Replace                   sb Replace  eacute                    return sb ToString   ToLower

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I m doing something similar  but in my case I m doing serialization De-serialization so I need to be able to go both directions  I find using a string     works nearly identically to the dictionary  including initialization  but you can go the other direction too  returning the substitutes to their original values  something that the dictionary really isn t set up to do   Edit  You can use Dictionary lt Key List lt Values gt  gt  in order to obtain same result as string

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this will be more efficient   public static class StringExtension       public static string clean this string s                return new StringBuilder s                 Replace   amp     and                  Replace                         Replace                           Replace       -                  Replace                         Replace                         Replace  eacute                         ToString                  ToLower

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If you are simply after a pretty solution and don t need to save a few nanoseconds  how about some LINQ sugar   var input    test1test2test3   var replacements   new Dictionary lt string  string gt       1             2             3     amp         var output   replacements Aggregate input   current  replacement    gt  current Replace replacement Key  replacement Value

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Another option using linq is   TestMethod  public void Test       var input    it s worth a lot of money  if you can find a buyer      var expected    its worth a lot of money if you can find a buyer     var removeList   new string                        var result   input     removeList ToList   ForEach o   gt  result   result Replace o  string Empty       Assert AreEqual expected  result

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Maybe a little more readable       public static class StringExtension            private static Dictionary lt string  string gt   replacements   new Dictionary lt string  string gt              static StringExtension                  replacements   amp       and                replacements                         replacements                             etc                       public static string clean this string s                foreach  string to replace in  replacements Keys                    s   s Replace to replace   replacements to replace                              return s                    Also add New In Town s suggestion about StringBuilder

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string input    it s worth a lot of money  if you can find a buyer    for  dynamic i   0  repl   new string                        money             find    locate       i  lt  repl Length   2  i          input   input Replace repl i  0   repl i  1

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