How to replace part of string by position?

I have this string: ABCDEFGHIJ

I need to replace from position 4 to position 5 with the string ZX

It will look like this: ABCZXFGHIJ

But not to use with string.replace("DE","ZX") - I nee开发者_Python百科d to use with position

How can I do it?

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string s = "ABCDEFGH";
s= s.Remove(3, 2).Insert(3, "ZX");

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The easiest way to add and remove ranges in a string is to use the StringBuilder.

var theString = "ABCDEFGHIJ";
var aStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(theString);
aStringBuilder.Remove(3, 2);
aStringBuilder.Insert(3, "ZX");
theString = aStringBuilder.ToString();

An alternative is to use String.Substring, but I think the StringBuilder code gets more readable.

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ReplaceAt(int index, int length, string replace)

Here's an extension method that doesn't use StringBuilder or Substring. This method also allows the replacement string to extend past the length of the source string.

//// str - the source string
//// index- the start location to replace at (0-based)
//// length - the number of characters to be removed before inserting
//// replace - the string that is replacing characters
public static string ReplaceAt(this string str, int index, int length, string replace)
{
    return str.Remove(index, Math.Min(length, str.Length - index))
            .Insert(index, replace);
}

When using this function, if you want the entire replacement string to replace as many characters as possible, then set length to the length of the replacement string:

"0123456789".ReplaceAt(7, 5, "Hello") = "0123456Hello"

Otherwise, you can specify the amount of characters that will be removed:

"0123456789".ReplaceAt(2, 2, "Hello") = "01Hello456789"

If you specify the length to be 0, then this function acts just like the insert function:

"0123456789".ReplaceAt(4, 0, "Hello") = "0123Hello456789"

I guess this is more efficient since the StringBuilder class need not be initialized and since it uses more basic operations. Please correct me if I am wrong. :)

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If you care about performance, then the thing you want to avoid here are allocations. And if you're on .Net Core 2.1+, then you can, by using the string.Create method:

public static string ReplaceAt(this string str, int index, int length, string replace)
{
    return string.Create(str.Length - length + replace.Length, (str, index, length, replace),
        (span, state) =>
        {
            state.str.AsSpan().Slice(0, state.index).CopyTo(span);
            state.replace.AsSpan().CopyTo(span.Slice(state.index));
            state.str.AsSpan().Slice(state.index + state.length).CopyTo(span.Slice(state.index + state.replace.Length));
        });
}

This approach is harder to understand than the alternatives, but it's the only one that will allocate only one object per call: the newly created string.

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Use String.Substring() (details here) to cut left part, then your replacement, then right part. Play with indexes until you get it right :)

Something like:

string replacement=original.Substring(0,start)+
    rep+original.Substring(start+rep.Length);

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        string s = "ABCDEFG";
        string t = "st";
        s = s.Remove(4, t.Length);
        s = s.Insert(4, t);

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As an extension method.

public static class StringBuilderExtension
{
    public static string SubsituteString(this string OriginalStr, int index, int length, string SubsituteStr)
    {
        return new StringBuilder(OriginalStr).Remove(index, length).Insert(index, SubsituteStr).ToString();
    }
}

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You could try something link this:

string str = "ABCDEFGHIJ";
str = str.Substring(0, 2) + "ZX" + str.Substring(5);

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Like other have mentioned the Substring() function is there for a reason:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string input = "ABCDEFGHIJ";

    string output = input.Overwrite(3, "ZX"); // 4th position has index 3
    // ABCZXFGHIJ
}

public static string Overwrite(this string text, int position, string new_text)
{
    return text.Substring(0, position) + new_text + text.Substring(position + new_text.Length);
}

Also I timed this against the StringBuilder solution and got 900 tics vs. 875. So it is slightly slower.

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Yet another

    public static string ReplaceAtPosition(this string self, int position, string newValue)        
    {
        return self.Remove(position, newValue.Length).Insert(position, newValue); 
    }

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With the help of this post, I create following function with additional length checks

public string ReplaceStringByIndex(string original, string replaceWith, int replaceIndex)
{
    if (original.Length >= (replaceIndex + replaceWith.Length))
    {
        StringBuilder rev = new StringBuilder(original);
        rev.Remove(replaceIndex, replaceWith.Length);
        rev.Insert(replaceIndex, replaceWith);
        return rev.ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        throw new Exception("Wrong lengths for the operation");
    }
}

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All others answers don't work if the string contains Unicode char (like Emojis) because an Unicode char weight more bytes than a char.

Example : the emoji '