Remove characters from a list of strings

Question

I have a list of strings which has got some characters in it. enter image description here

On viewing it in HTML viewer I get the following

enter image description here

I tried line.Replace() to remove some special characters but it doesn't work.

You should take a look at this question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120198/most-efficient-way-to-remove-special-characters-from-string — Greg, Jun 12 '14 at 14:38
And maybe this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5459641/replacing-characters-in-c-sharp-ascii — tranceporter, Jun 12 '14 at 14:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '14 at 14:39

2

This code will remove any non-printable or non-ASCII characters using regex:

line = Regex.Replace(line, @"[^\u0021-\u007F]", string.Empty);

answered Jun 12 '14 at 14:39

Andrew

4,953
15
40
58

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123336/how-can-you-strip-non-ascii-characters-from-a-string-in-c](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123336/how-can-you-strip-non-ascii-characters-from-a-string-in-c) – Tzah Mama Jun 12 '14 at 14:40
OMG!!! IT works. Thanks a billion trillion...CHEERS – Newton Sheikh Jun 12 '14 at 14:41
@TzahMama duplicate question :P will remove my question. – Newton Sheikh Jun 12 '14 at 14:42
It's not quite a duplicate. The answer he linked won't remove `\0`, for instance, which you had in your string. – Andrew Jun 12 '14 at 14:43

Mukesh Modhvadiya · Answer 2 · 2014-06-14T12:15:29.780

0

You can filter it lke this :

var specialChars = new char[] {'-', '!', '*'}; // your all special chars
var newstr = string.Concat(line.ToCharArray().Where(c => !specialChars.Contains(c)));

Hope this helps.

edited Jun 14 '14 at 12:15

answered Jun 12 '14 at 14:46

Mukesh Modhvadiya

2,178
2
27
32

Remove characters from a list of strings

2 Answers2