illegal characters

[Dave]

I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal characters.
Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want the
decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?

I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.

[Wayne]

Re: illegal characters

(int)'A' will give you 65

so

char temp = 'A';
(int) temp

or

(int)stringVar[x]


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"Dave" <Dave@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
news:AD90B6C1-C1A2-4804-AD20-629ACB37DB1C@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
> phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
> textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal[/color]
characters.[color=blue]
> Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want[/color]
the[color=blue]
> decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
> equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?
>
> I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.[/color]

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: illegal characters

Dave <Dave@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote:[color=blue]
> I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
> phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
> textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal characters.
> Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want the
> decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
> equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?
>
> I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.[/color]

There's no "chr" command (or any commands) in C#. However, you can just
use the unicode value:

int x = 'A'; // x will now be 65

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[Ahmed Qurashi]

Re: illegal characters

C# equivalents of VB functions:

int Asc(char ch)
{
//Return the character value of the given character
return (int)Encoding.A SCII.GetBytes(S )[0];
}

Char Chr(int i)
{
//Return the character of the given character value
return Convert.ToChar( i);
}


There are also some nice builtin methods for string handling in c# such as
Replace(), Split() and Remove().

See docs for more details.

ok,
aq

"Dave" <Dave@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
news:AD90B6C1-C1A2-4804-AD20-629ACB37DB1C@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
> phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
> textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal[/color]
characters.[color=blue]
> Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want[/color]
the[color=blue]
> decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
> equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?
>
> I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.[/color]

[Sunny]

Re: illegal characters

In article <AD90B6C1-C1A2-4804-AD20-629ACB37DB1C@mi crosoft.com>,
Dave@discussion s.microsoft.com says...[color=blue]
> I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
> phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
> textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal characters.
> Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want the
> decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
> equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?
>
> I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.
>[/color]

In addition to the other answers, you can use regular expressions to
remove the illegal characters.

Sunny

[robkit]

RE: illegal characters

I would suggest you to use Char class'es static methods like Char.IsLetter()
or Char.IsLetterOr Digit() as they take in account the language support. For
example if you run your application in US 'ä' would be an illegal character
but in Denmark it will be OK. Char methods take care of it you you.

"Dave" wrote:
[color=blue]
> I need to cut out illegal characters in a string submitted from a mobile
> phone to a web form. I need a way to check for the illegal characters in a
> textbox. I intend to loop through the text and remove the illegal characters.
> Is there an equivalent function to c# to chr() in Visual basic? I want the
> decimal value of a character, like "A" is 65 in ACII2. If there is a
> equilvalent command does it return ACII2 or unicode?
>
> I know there is a chr command in c# but it dosen't do the same thing.[/color]