Finding all instances of a quote in a C# string

Question

I'm trying to find and replace all instances of a double quote in a C# string using regex, but can't quite seem to grasp the answer, here is what I have so far:

private string checkEscapeChars(string s)
{
    s = Regex.Replace(s, @"[""]", String.Empty);
    return s;
}

Now, that runs okay, but lets say I have a string "this is my "Sample string"

I want to get rid of the " before Sample. Will the above work for that? Or will it find and replace all instances of matching double quotes, rather than single double quotes?

It looks like this was asked before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141045/how-do-i-replace-the-first-instance-of-a-string-in-net — RonaldBarzell, Nov 14 '12 at 19:22

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '12 at 19:21

10

Why would you want to use a regular expression for this? Just use String.Replace:

withoutQuotes = withQuotes.Replace("\"", "");

answered Nov 14 '12 at 19:21

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