Remove everything between two characters until they are inside some other characters

Question

Basically, my goal is to delete everything inside (), with the exception of lines inside "".

I followed the code here: Remove text between delimiters in a string (using regex?)

And it works great; but I have an additional requirement not to delete () s if they are in "". This is something that can be done with regex. I feel that I am dangerously close to the need for a different approach, like a true parser.

This is what I used ....

string RemoveBetween(string s, char begin, char end)
{
    Regex regex = new Regex(string.Format("\\{0}.*?\\{1}", begin, end));
    return regex.Replace(s, string.Empty);
}

Answer 1

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http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396452.aspx

Answer 2

C, java:

input.replaceAll("(?<=\\().*?(?=[\"()])(\"([^\"]*)\")?.*(?=\\))", "$2");

:

"foo (bar \"hello world\" foo) bar" --> "foo (hello world) bar"
"foo (bar foo) bar" --> "foo () bar"

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Answer 3

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