How to eliminate delimiters and spaces from user inputed text?

Question

create a project that will allow the user to enter a mailing address. The address may not contain any leading or trailing spacebars and may not contain the following special characters. • Period key (.) • Comma (,) • Semicolon (;) The user will enter a mailing address into a Text Box. When the appropriate button is selected, the entered address will be checked for any invalid characters. The resulting/corrected address will then be displayed into a Label.

I have written code but I cannot figure out how to display it in the label box without the period, comma, and semicolon

        string wordString;
        char[] delimChar = { ',', '.', ';' };

        wordString = entryTextBox.Text;
        wordString = wordString.Trim();
        string[] delimString = wordString.Split(delimChar);

I have no error messages in the code but need some additional help.

Duplicate explains exactly what you try to do. Problem in code you wrote is duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15659409/how-do-you-display-a-string-array-in-a-text-box — Alexei Levenkov, Oct 01 '19 at 03:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '19 at 03:43

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You could just use regex replace

var input = "    P.O, Box123;";
var pattern = @"^ *|\.|,|;";

var result = Regex.Replace(input, pattern, "");

Console.WriteLine(result);

Output

PO Box123

Demo Here

answered Oct 01 '19 at 03:43

TheGeneral

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That would work except if they enter a different address. I want the user to be able to input any address and it correct it to take out white space, comma, period and semicolon. – Devin128 Oct 01 '19 at 03:49
`public string MyAwesomeMethod(string input)... return result;` – TheGeneral Oct 01 '19 at 03:51
Yes but that helps. Didn't even think to do that. Oops. – Devin128 Oct 01 '19 at 03:52

How to eliminate delimiters and spaces from user inputed text?

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