[RESOLVED] Removing Spaces

[ekim12987]

I am reading data in from a text file that has a lot of spacing between fields:
name address phone.
Each column is a fixed length, so if i use substring() i can gather the whole field. The problem is when I use trim() it doesnt remove all the spaces. In debug mode when I go over a variable I will see "name \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" "address\0\0\0\0\0" etc. Is there another form of trim() that I can use to remove those. Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

Are those spaces or null characters? If you call Trim without an argument is will remove spaces only. If you want to remove other characters you have to specify those characters. I suggest that you read the MSDN help topic for the String.Trim method and it will explain.

[ekim12987]

I actually beleive they are null characters

[chemicalNova]

If you're wanting to remove all of the null characters, Trim isn't for you. Trim only removes leading and trailing characters. Use replace:

string blah = "name \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" "address\0\0\0\0\0";
blah = blah.Replace("\0", ""); 

chem

[ekim12987]

that works, thanks