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Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Reputation:

How to remove non-ASCII word from a string in C#

I want to filter some string which has some wrong letters (non-ASCII). It looks different in Notepad, Visual Studio 2010 and MySQL.

How can I check if a string has non-ASCII letters and how I can remove them?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7271

Answers (6)

payam purchi
payam purchi

Reputation: 276

string testString = Regex.Replace(OldString, @"[\u0000-\u0008\u000A-\u001F\u0100-\uFFFF]", "");

Upvotes: 1

Trey Carroll
Trey Carroll

Reputation: 2382

This has been a God-send:

Regex.Replace(input, @"[^\u0000-\u007F]", "");

I think I got it elsewhere originally, but here is a link to the same answer here:

How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#)

Upvotes: 1

Arafangion
Arafangion

Reputation: 11910

First, you need to determine what you mean by a "word". If non-ascii, this probably implies non-english?

Personally, I'd ask why you need to do this and what fundamental assumption has your application got that conflicts with your data? Depending on the situation, I suggest you either re-encode the text from the source encoding, although this will be a lossy conversion, or alternatively, address that fundamental assumption so that your application handles data correctly.

Upvotes: 0

Dan Tao
Dan Tao

Reputation: 128327

I think something as simple as this would probably work, wouldn't it?

public static string AsciiOnly(this string input, bool includeExtendedAscii)
{
    int upperLimit = includeExtendedAscii ? 255 : 127;
    char[] asciiChars = input.Where(c => (int)c <= upperLimit).ToArray();
    return new string(asciiChars);
}

Example usage:

string input = "AB£ȼCD";
string asciiOnly = input.AsciiOnly(false); // returns "ABCD"
string extendedAsciiOnly = input.AsciiOnly(true); // returns "AB£CD"

Upvotes: -1

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038930

You could use a regular expression to filter non ASCII characters:

string input = "AB £ CD";
string result = Regex.Replace(input, "[^\x0d\x0a\x20-\x7e\t]", "");

Upvotes: 4

Mikael Svenson
Mikael Svenson

Reputation: 39695

You could use Regular Expressions.

Regex.Replace(input, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", "")

You could also use \W+ as the pattern to remove any non-character.

Upvotes: 1

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