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Mark
Mark

Reputation: 227

replace " in vb.net

How can I replace the double quote in VB.NET?

This code doesn't work:

name.Replace("""," ")

Upvotes: 20

Views: 94688

Answers (6)

tobrien
tobrien

Reputation: 618

Instead of a "data link escaped" method of...

name = name.Replace("""", "")

You could be explicit and somewhat more readable...

name = name.Replace(ControlChars.DblQuote, "")

And BTW, instead of thinking of this as returning a NEW STRING; it's better to think of the REPLACE as a part of the STRING Class associated with the 'name' instance. If it's losing the old value of name that you do not want then simply...

Dim aNewString$ = name.Replace(ControlChars.DblQuote, "")

And the 'name' will remain unchanged.

Upvotes: 20

user9286728
user9286728

Reputation: 1

'This part is to remove the " mark in the string

Dim GetDate31 As String = Date31(16).Replace(Chr(34), "")

Upvotes: -1

boatbodger
boatbodger

Reputation: 51

I had a nasty one where try as I might, I could not get Replace() to work. In the end, it turned out the strings I was trying to clean somehow had got a completely different characters which just LOOKED like double quotes. A genius had edited a script file using Word, so "hello" became “hello”. Subtle, or what? Looking at the file with a hex editor, the opening quote was the three character value 0xe2 0x80 0x9c, and the closer was 0xe2 0x80 0x9d. No wonder the replace failed!

Upvotes: 0

GGSoft
GGSoft

Reputation: 429

name = name.Replace(Chr(34), "")

Upvotes: 8

Ashish Gupta
Ashish Gupta

Reputation: 15139

you should return the resultant string back to a string and also escape that double quotes with a double quote or "\"

name = name.Remove("""", String.Empty)

Upvotes: 0

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881663

You need to use a double quote within those quotes (and get the return value - String.Replace does not operate on the string itself, it returns a new string):

name = name.Replace(""""," ")

Upvotes: 22

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