Regex Replace $ and % Characters with ""

Question

_{Monday, February 22, 2016 2:45 PM}

Using this C# code (that does not work) I wish to remove the dollar character or the percent character from a string resulting in a whole number such as 50 from $50 or 50%. Here is my code...

        private static string Trim(string str)
        {
            Regex rgx = new Regex(@"<#$>"); //everything in the parenthesis is the issue.
            str = rgx.Replace(str, "");
            return str.ToString();
        }

Thanks for any assistance.

TC

All replies (3)

_{Monday, February 22, 2016 5:38 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

If you want to perform some elements of validation and only remove one ‘$’ at the beginning or ‘%’ at the end, then:

     str = Regex.Replace(str, @"^\[$\]|%$", string.Empty);

Unless you only need a simple global replacement.

_{Monday, February 22, 2016 3:13 PM}

Why are you using RE for this?  Just use String.Replace or Trim.

//If you only want to remove the leading and trailing chars
return str.Trim(new [] { '$', '%' });

//If you want to remove them anywhere in string
return str.Replace('$', default(char)).Replace('%', default(char));

Michael Taylor
http://blogs.msmvps.com/p3net

_{Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:06 AM}

Excellent help Viorel. Worked like a charm.

@CoolDadTx, Its helpful to assist someone with what they need instead of making such a statement. We all need to learn what we want to learn and as Viorel explained what I had to do and showed me my issue has been resolved.