Eliminate additional forward/ backward slashes and build the Url

Question

I am converting a VB6 project to C#. In the VB6 project, we have manually created methods for url building. In C#, we have Uri, UriBuilder etc. libraries.

I need to find a way to build the url by removing the additional backward, forward slashes.

For example, if I use UriBuilder,

UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder();
uriBuilder.Scheme = "https";
uriBuilder.Host = @"www.facebook.com/";
uriBuilder.Path = @"/asa/dsd\";

When I call uriBuilder.ToString(), here I got the result as

https://www.facebook.com//asa/dsd/

From the output, UriBuilder is not removing the additional forward/ backward slashes in the host name.

Could anybody please let me know, is there a library in C# which we can use to build the url by removing the additional slashes?

Thank you.

Possible duplicate of [Using System.Uri to remove redundant slash](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19689778/using-system-uri-to-remove-redundant-slash) — styx, Aug 28 '18 at 05:44

vhr · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-28T05:42:27.243

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try this:

var baseUri = new Uri("https://www.facebook.com/");
var yourUri = new Uri(baseUri, @"/asa/dsd\");
var result = yourUri.ToString(); // https://www.facebook.com/asa/dsd/

edited Aug 28 '18 at 05:42

answered Aug 28 '18 at 05:33

vhr

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '18 at 05:45

You could use string.Trim method to get rid of unwanted slashes at the beginning and at the start of your string:

UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder();
uriBuilder.Scheme = "https";
uriBuilder.Host = @"www.facebook.com/";
uriBuilder.Host = uriBuilder.Host.Trim('/');
uriBuilder.Path = @"/asa/dsd\";
uriBuilder.Path = uriBuilder.Path.Trim('/');

Eliminate additional forward/ backward slashes and build the Url

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