removing escape charachters from a string

[fguihen]

i have a string, and it has to become a filename. the problem is it contains backslashes in many places. ive tried using the string.replace method to replace the \ with blank spaces but it doesnt work. its the same story with doubble quote charachters (the " charachter).what am i doing wrong?

[PlausiblyDamp]

What code are you using to remove the backslashes as there is no reason why this should fail.

 

Dim s as string = "ssdfdsf\sdfsdfdsf"
s=s.Replace("\"," ")

 

string s = "dsfsdf\\fdsfsdf";
s = s.Replace('\\',' ');

 

either should work.

[MrPaul]

String methods

 

What code are you using to remove the backslashes as there is no reason why this should fail.

 

As a guess, I would say fguihen may be expecting the Replace method to affect the actual string instance it is invoked on. It is useful to remember that the string type is immutable, meaning that an individual string instance cannot be modified, instead a new string must be created. This applies to all string methods, such as Concat, Remove, Trim, ToUpper and ToLower:

 

'Incorrect
myString.ToUpper()

'Correct
myString = myString.ToUpper()

 

Good luck :)

[snarfblam]

Re: String methods

 

Good catch, Mister Paul. You know, assuming that this is the case, I wouldn't have caught that, even if I saw the code. Even now I find myself stumped from time to time when I use the String.Replace method.