Strip all punctuation from a string in VB.net

vb.net punctuation
Cyclone picture Cyclone · Aug 31, 2009 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

How do I strip all punctuation from a string in vb.net? I really do not want to do stringname.Replace("$", "") for every single bit of punctuation, though it would work.

How do i do this quickly and efficiently?

Other than coding something that codes this for me....

Answer

Guffa picture Guffa · Aug 31, 2009

You can use a regular expression to match anything that you want to remove:

str = Regex.Replace(str, "[^A-Za-z]+", String.Empty);

[^...] is a negative set that matches any character that is not in the set. You can just put any character there that you want to keep.

Related questions

VB.NET Brackets () {} [] <>

Can someone please fill in the blanks for me, including a brief description of use and perhaps a code snippet? I'm well aware of the top two in particular, but a little hazy on the last one especially: () - Used …

Read More
What is a NullReferenceException, and how do I fix it?

I have some code and when it executes, it throws a NullReferenceException, saying: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. What does this mean, and what can I do to fix this error?

Read More
Converting string to byte array in C#

I'm converting something from VB into C#. Having a problem with the syntax of this statement: if ((searchResult.Properties["user"].Count > 0)) { profile.User = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(searchResult.Properties["user"][0]); } I then see the following errors: Argument 1: cannot …

Read More