Re: Stripping out unwanted characters

HI,

Use regular expression to remove unwanted characters and then send the
string to database. Here is a sample code to remove non-alphanumerical
characters from a string.

hoep this will help you...

public static void Main()

{


/*Reg expression to find non-alphanumeric characters*/

string pattern = @"[^A-Za-z0-9]";

/*include System.Text.RegularExpressions name space*/

Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern);

string inputStr = "ab$!Cd&%$gf£!";

/*Replace non-alphanumeric characters with space*/

string outputStr = rgx.Replace(inputStr, " ");


Console.WriteLine("Output string:"+ outputStr);

}

Cheers
Vinu


"et" <eagletender2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ODVkXK7NGHA.668@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How can I strip out unwanted characters in a string before updating the
database? For instance, in names & addresses in our client table, we want
only letters and numbers, no punctuation. Is there a way to do this?



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