Easiest way to combine 'l','e','t','t','e','r','s'? C# / .NET

Question

I have a string similar to

'l','e','t','t','e','r','s'

or

('l','e','t','t','e','r','s')

I know this should be very easy but i dont know how. I know replacing ' and , with "" is an option since both are illegal characters in the result string but i feel theres a better way to do this.

What is the easist way in C# .NET

Answer 1

result = "('l','e','t','t','e','r','s')".Replace("(", String.Empty).Replace("'", String.Empty;

or

result = RegEx.Replace("('l','e','t','t','e','r','s')", "[^a-zA-Z]+", String.Empty);

or

result = String.Join(String.Empty, new String() {'l','e','t','t','e','r','s'});

or

result = new String(new Char() {'l','e','t','t','e','r','s'});

Bobby

Answer 2

Well, I think just doing a replace of '/, characters with "" is the best solution, but if you like needlessly complicating things for the sake of premature optimization you could do a regex match on alphabetic characters and then concatenate all the matches together.

Answer 3

Unless performance is critical, you're probably best of just using simple replacement. The shortest replacement you can write is something along the lines of:

string output = Regex.Replace(input, "\W+", "");

Note that \W will not remove underscores or numbers. For keeping English letters only, you would use:

string output = Regex.Replace(input, "[^a-zA-Z]+", "");

Answer 4

Try using RegEx (System.Text.RegularExpressions).

it seems you want to strip out only the alphabetic characters

public static string StripNonAlphabets(string input)
{
    Regex reg = new Regex("[^A-Za-z]");

    return reg.Replace(str, string.Empty);
}

this method should return what you're looking for