Replace Text with Regular Expression (Regex) in PowerPoint in C#, VB.NET

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Spire.Presentation for .NET provides you with the ability to replace text with regular expression using the ReplaceTextWithRegex method of IShape class. The ReplaceTextWithRegex method accepts the following parameters:

Regex: the regular expression to search text.

string: the text to replace with.

The following example demonstrates how to replace text with regular expression in a PowerPoint document using Spire.Presentation for .NET.

C#
using Spire.Presentation;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace ReplaceTextWithRegex
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Create a Presentation instance
            Presentation ppt = new Presentation();
            //Load a sample document
            ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx");

            //Get the first slide
            ISlide slide = ppt.Slides[0];

            //Replace "ABC" and the subsequent to the end of the line as "ABC DEF"
            Regex regex = new Regex("ABC.*");
            string newvalue = "ABC DEF";
            foreach (IShape shape in slide.Shapes)
            {
                shape.ReplaceTextWithRegex(regex, newvalue);
            }

            //Save the result document
            ppt.SaveToFile("ReplaceTextWithRegex.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013);
        }
    }
}
VB.NET
Imports Spire.Presentation
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

Namespace ReplaceTextWithRegex
    Friend Class Program
        Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())
            'Create a Presentation instance
            Dim ppt As Presentation = New Presentation()
            'Load the sample document
            ppt.LoadFromFile("Sample.pptx")

            'Get the first slide
            Dim slide As ISlide = ppt.Slides(0)

            'Replace "ABC" and the subsequent to the end of the line as "ABC DEF"
            Dim regex As Regex = New Regex("ABC.*")
            Dim newvalue As String = "ABC DEF"

            For Each shape As IShape In slide.Shapes
                shape.ReplaceTextWithRegex(regex, newvalue)
            Next

            'Save the result document
            ppt.SaveToFile("ReplaceTextWithRegex.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2013)
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

The input PowerPoint document:

Replace Text with Regular Expression (Regex) in PowerPoint in C#, VB.NET

The output PowerPoint document:

Replace Text with Regular Expression (Regex) in PowerPoint in C#, VB.NET

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Last modified on Friday, 24 September 2021 09:17