Question

How to extract a file name from a path, replace whitespaces, and make it lowercase using RegEx in VB.NET

Answer 1

Imports System
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Class Program
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim filePath As String = "c:\path\to\file\WITH Whitespace1 and Whitespace2.vb"
        Dim result As String = NormalizeFilename(filePath)
		
        Console.WriteLine(result)
    End Sub

    Private Shared Function NormalizeFilename(ByVal filePath As String) As String
        Dim filename As String = Regex.Replace(filePath, "^.*[\\\/]([^\\\/]*)$", "$1")
        
		filename = filename.Replace(" ", "_")
        
		filename = filename.ToLower()
        Return filename
    End Function
End Class



' run:
'
' with_whitespace1_and_whitespace2.vb
'

 

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