Method to strip out special characters from a string.

Special characters can cause all kind of trouble. 
So here is a method that you pass in a string and all the special characters will be removed.

 

public static string StripSpecialCharacters(string stringToConvert)

        {

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("~", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("#", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("%", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("&", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("*", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("{", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("}", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("\\", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace(":", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("<", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace(">", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("?", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("/", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("|", string.Empty);

            stringToConvert = stringToConvert.Replace("\"", string.Empty);

            return stringToConvert;

        } 

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