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Remove punctuation from string with Regex

I'm really bad with Regex but I want to remove all these .,;:'"$#@!?/\*&^-+ out of a string.

string x = "This is a test string, with lots of: punctuations; in it?!.";

How can I do that?

Solution

  • First, please read here for information on regular expressions. It's worth learning.

    You can use this:

    Regex.Replace("This is a test string, with lots of: punctuations; in it?!.", @"[^\w\s]", "");

    Which means:

    [   #Character block start.
^   #Not these characters (letters, numbers).
\w  #Word characters.
\s  #Space characters.
]   #Character block end.

    In the end it reads "replace any character that is not a word character or a space character with nothing."