remove only characters from string

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hi there,

in textbox user will give value like...

27 yrs
40yrs
35 years

so i want remove only characters from textbox , how can i do this?

thanks

Posted 20-Aug-12 16:23pm

Aniruddh Bhatt

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[no name] 20-Aug-12 22:40pm

Why don't you just restrict entry to integers only?

Aniruddh Bhatt 20-Aug-12 23:20pm

my party/customer not agree.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 0:44am

Who cares? Are you ready to do all your customer tells you, even complete gibberish? And they will say such things, sometimes, to be sure.
--SA

[no name] 21-Aug-12 7:47am

So maybe you should tell us what you really want to do before anyone wastes more time on this.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 0:44am

Wes, you probably did not attention how a question is formulated: "remove only characters". As the string contains but characters, is should become string.Empty. This is how I answered it.
--SA

Rahul Rajat Singh 21-Aug-12 0:02am

Is my solution not working? I have checked it and it seems to be working. Let me know if there is still some problem.

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Solution 3

Here is how:

C#

string RemoveOnlyCharacterFromString(string value) { return string.Empty; }

Explanation: a content of a string is some characters and nothing else. Removing of them, only, should be understood as removing all of the, because there is nothing else.

The question probably based in incorrect understanding of the word "character", which does not make it correct.

Good luck,

—SA

Posted 20-Aug-12 18:42pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Rahul Rajat Singh 21-Aug-12 1:34am

+5 for taking things literally and sense of humor. (We need such stuff to keep us laughing)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 2:15am

Agree. I also think that sloppy wording should be corrected, as this is a eternal source of confusion and, hence, waste of time.
Thank you, Rahul.
--SA

Kenneth Haugland 21-Aug-12 14:34pm

5'ed. For sence of humor and education of the difference between the word charecter and Letter :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 14:46pm

Thank you, Kenneth. :-)
--SA

Solution 2

How about:

VB

Private Function ReturnInteger(Byval input as string) as string
   dim output as new system.text.StringBuilder
   
   For each c as char in input
       if not char.IsLetter(c) then
           output.Append(c)
       end if
   next

return output.tosting
end function

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yyxz6h5w.aspx[^]

Its not perfect thoug, if the input is "45 mmm 45" the output would be 4545. But I guess htat would be your problem ;)

Posted 20-Aug-12 18:15pm

Kenneth Haugland

Updated 20-Aug-12 18:16pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 0:44am

You probably did not attention how a question is formulated: "remove only characters". As the string contains but characters, is should become string.Empty. This is how I answered it.
--SA

Kenneth Haugland 21-Aug-12 0:53am

:laugh: You are correct, I just assumed he meant Letters not Charecters, due to the vage understanding of english by the questioneer :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 14:32pm

No wonder... :-)
--SA

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Rahul Rajat Singh · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-20T17:51:00

Solution 1

Here is a small code snippet that does the same thing using regex. please modify it as per you project and see if it works.

C#

string s = "27 august";

string pattern = "[a-zA-Z ]*";
string replacement = "";
Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern);
string result = rgx.Replace(s, replacement);
//result = 27 (after this executes)

Posted 20-Aug-12 17:51pm

Rahul Rajat Singh

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riteshsingh_jsr 21-Aug-12 0:15am

Nice one...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 0:44am

You probably did not attention how a question is formulated: "remove only characters". As the string contains but characters, is should become string.Empty. This is how I answered it.
--SA

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