String.Replace ignoring case

I have a string called "hello world"

I need to replace the word "world" to "csharp"

for this I use:

string.Replace("World", "csharp");

but as a result, I don't get the string replaced. The reason is case sensitiveness. The original string contains "world" whereas I'm trying to replace "World".

Is there any way to avoid this case sensitiveness in string.Replace method?

You could use a Regex and perform a case insensitive replace:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string input = "hello WoRlD";
        string result = 
           Regex.Replace(input, "world", "csharp", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        Console.WriteLine(result); // prints "hello csharp"
    }
}

var search = "world";
var replacement = "csharp";
string result = Regex.Replace(
    stringToLookInto,
    Regex.Escape(search), 
    replacement.Replace("$","$$"), 
    RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
);

The Regex.Escape is useful if you rely on user input which can contains Regex language elements

Update

Thanks to comments, you actually don't have to escape the replacement string.

Here is a small fiddle that tests the code:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;           
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {

        var tests = new[] {
            new { Input="abcdef", Search="abc", Replacement="xyz", Expected="xyzdef" },
            new { Input="ABCdef", Search="abc", Replacement="xyz", Expected="xyzdef" },
            new { Input="A*BCdef", Search="a*bc", Replacement="xyz", Expected="xyzdef" },
            new { Input="abcdef", Search="abc", Replacement="x*yz", Expected="x*yzdef" },       
            new { Input="abcdef", Search="abc", Replacement="$", Expected="$def" },
        };


        foreach(var test in tests){
            var result = ReplaceCaseInsensitive(test.Input, test.Search, test.Replacement);

            Console.WriteLine(
                "Success: {0}, Actual: {1}, {2}",
                result == test.Expected,
                result,
                test
            );

        }


    }

    private static string ReplaceCaseInsensitive(string input, string search, string replacement){
        string result = Regex.Replace(
            input,
            Regex.Escape(search), 
            replacement.Replace("$","$$"), 
            RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
        );
        return result;
    }
}

Its output is:

Success: True, Actual: xyzdef, { Input = abcdef, Search = abc, Replacement = xyz, Expected = xyzdef } 
Success: True, Actual: xyzdef, { Input = ABCdef, Search = abc, Replacement = xyz, Expected = xyzdef }
Success: True, Actual: xyzdef, { Input = A*BCdef, Search = a*bc, Replacement = xyz, Expected = xyzdef } 
Success: True, Actual: x*yzdef, { Input = abcdef, Search = abc, Replacement = x*yz, Expected = x*yzdef} 
Success: True, Actual: $def, { Input = abcdef, Search = abc, Replacement = $, Expected = $def }