C# multiple replace works slow, any faster idea ?

Question

return mystring.replace(/&/g, "&").replace(/>/g, ">")  
      .replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;");

The above is my code, and I guess since it tracks the string 4 times, it makes it slower. Is there any other way (method prefered) to replace those special characters in only one loop? Well I can do it with a for loop and checking char by char, but it is not smthing I would like to.

Thanks.

Answer 1

HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode should work. I'll add more info in a minute.

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Here's a link to MSDN.

Of course - i'm assuming that's what you are trying to achieve and other kind of string replacements are not necessary.

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Forgot to add - i haven't done any performance tests. And yet - it`s supposed to work faster.