Basically what I'm trying to do is replace a symbol like ™, ® etc with something else but when I call
myString = myString.Replace("®", "something else")
Its doesn't do anything
Any Ideas?
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1Are you remembering to re-assign the string?Brandon– Brandon2011-08-24 16:10:01 +00:00Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 16:10
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1Yes I'm later reassigning the string. I'll edit the question to make that more clear.bigamil– bigamil2011-08-24 16:17:46 +00:00Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 16:17
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@Killie01 thanks for some reason I didn't think the symbol was encoded and it was. The following ended up working for me name.Replace("\u00AE", "<sup>\u00AE</sup>")bigamil– bigamil2011-08-24 16:40:12 +00:00Commented Aug 24, 2011 at 16:40
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try myString.Replace("\u00A9", "else"); you have to escape the ©
When you use String.Replace you create a new string. It is a very common mistake to believe the the supplied string is modified. However, strings in .NET are immutable and cannot be modified.
You have to call it like this:
myString = myString.Replace("®", "something else");
answered Aug 24, 2011 at 16:10
Martin Liversage
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I assume that your mistake is in calling Replace without assigning the result to anything.
without seeing your code is difficult to guess, but something like this should work:
myString = myString.Replace("®", "something else");
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It may be likely that C# does not like the literal registered symbol. I would suggest trying to replace the character by using a character code, using either the integral value, hex, or unicode.
Below is an example using the integral value of the character ®.
string originalString = "whatever®";
string stuff = "something else";
char registered = (char)174;
string replacedString = originalString.Replace(registered, stuff);
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Remember that string.Replace returns a new string, so you need to re-assign it
myString = myString.Replace("®", "something else");
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Try to use Unicode characters to replace this symbols.
string x = "® ™ dwdd2";
string y = x.Replace('\u00AE', 'X');
It's working ;-)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664669%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
And a list of Charakters:
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Smokefoot
Thats trash invalidsyntax... I'm replacing ® with the char X... maybe you should read msdn msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/czx8s9ts.aspx
bigamil
I ended up using 'code'name = name.Replace("\u00AE", "<sup>\u00AE</sup>");'code'
It works for me:
var myString = "Hello world ®, will this work?";
var result = myString.Replace("®", "something else");
Console.WriteLine(result);
results in:
Hello world something else, will this work?
You can see it run here.
Does your original string really contain that character or does it contain something like an html entity: ® or ® or other "encoded" version of that character?
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