how remove all special characters(except - and /) from a string including all cr,lf,crlf, other illegal characters?

Question

i have been trying to remove special characters. i am not able to remove many crlf in middile of the string. please help. i got this issue in production, need to resolve it soon. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use either regex or Char class functions like IsControl(), IsDigit() etc. Get a list of these functions here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.char_members.aspx

Here's a sample regex example:

(Import this before using RegEx)

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

In your function, write this

Regex.Replace(strIn, "[^\w\\-]", "")

This statement will replace any character that is not a word, \ or -. For e.g. aa-b@c will become aa-bc.

Answer 2

Try using the Regex.Replace() method: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.replace.aspx

Answer 3

Dim cleanString As String = Regex.Replace(yourString, "[^A-Za-z0-9\-/]", "")