Wild card in c# string
<p>I want some way to express a wildcard symbol in C# this is the code i want to use the wild card in it's used to remove the tags from an xml code I already have </p>

<pre><code>    public static String readfromnode(XNode x)
    {
        String before;
        before = x.ToString();
        before.Replace("&lt;"the wild card should be here"&gt;", null);
        return before;
    }
</code></pre>

<p>I already tried using many symbols and associate them with <code>@</code> but nothing is working well.</p>

<p>for example the in put is </p>

<p><code>**&lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Benchmark 1&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;**</code></p>

<p>and the output is</p>

<p><strong>Benchmark 1</strong></p>
