removing special characters

[Mark Bosley]

i'm reading from a database and found special character showing up as \0
or
�� when i serialize to xml.

trim does not work and using the string.Replace doesn't either.

how do i remove these?

[Jon Skeet]

Mark Bosley <bo*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

i'm reading from a database and found special character showing up as \0
or
&#x0;&#x0; when i serialize to xml.

trim does not work and using the string.Replace doesn't either.

how do i remove these?

Trim should work just fine, as should string.Replace - could you give a
short but complete example of them not working? Here's one showing them
working:

using System;

public class Test
{
static void Main ()
{
string original = "hello\0 there\0\0\0";
string trimmed = original.Trim ('\0');
string replaced = original.Replace ("\0", "");

Console.WriteLine (original.Length);
Console.WriteLine (trimmed.Length);
Console.WriteLine (replaced.Length);
}
}

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[Austin Ehlers]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:11:03 -0700, "Mark Bosley"
<bo*********@hotmail.com> wrote:

i'm reading from a database and found special character showing up as \0
or
&#x0;&#x0; when i serialize to xml.

trim does not work and using the string.Replace doesn't either.

how do i remove these?
My guess is that you are calling it like this:

stringvar.Trim("\0");

However, in C#, strings are immutable, so that call actually returns a
new string. Call it like this:

stringvar=stringvar.Trim("\0");

'Lib