Imports System
Public Class Program
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim str As String = "***---=====vb.net c c++*******========"
Dim characters As Char() = {"*"c, "-"c, "="c}
str = str.Trim(characters)
Console.WriteLine(str)
End Sub
End Class
' run:
'
' vb.net c c++
'