Question

How to extract only characters, numbers and spaces from a string in VB.NET

Answer 1

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
 
Public Class Test
    Public Shared Function extract_characters_numbers_spaces(s as String) As String
        Dim len As Integer = s.Length
  
        Dim regx As Regex = new Regex("[a-zA-Z0-9 ]")
 
        Dim result As String = ""
 
        For i As Integer = 0 To len - 1
            Dim ch As Char = s(i)
            If regx.IsMatch(ch.ToString()) Then
                result = result + ch
            End If
        Next
        return result
    End Function
     
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim s As String = "c++14$vb.net &%java*() php c# <>/python 3.7.3"
          
        Console.WriteLine(extract_characters_numbers_spaces(s))
    End Sub
End Class
 
 
' run:
' 
' c14vbnet java php c python 373
'

 

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