How to select only letters in a value?

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i have a value of ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT - 1231

how do i only get ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT?

What I have tried:

i tried this code

var onlyLetters = new string(myString.Where(char.IsLetter).ToArray());

but it will delete all the space
i only want to erase the - 1231

Posted 3-Feb-19 21:44pm

Reden Rodriguez

Updated 3-Feb-19 22:44pm

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2019-02-03T22:09:00

If you want to remove 123 (digits) from string, you can use Regex.Replace method[^]. See:

C#

string s = @"ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT - 1231";
string pattern = @"\d";
string replacement = string.Empty;
var result = Regex.Replace(s, pattern, replacement, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

Result:

ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT -

F. Xaver · Answer 2 · 2019-02-03T22:45:00

Or you follow your LINQ approach. Just a littlebit modifyed
becouse if you just want do get rid of the numeric digits and keep all the text and symbols

C#

var myString = "ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT - 1231";
var onlyLetters = new String(myString.Where(_ => !char.IsDigit(_)).ToArray());

=> ACCOUNTS MGT & TREASURY - OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT -

Wastedtalent · Answer 3 · 2019-02-03T21:47:00

Solution 2

You could try using Regular expressions:

Verifying that a string contains only letters in C# - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 3-Feb-19 21:47pm

Wastedtalent

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Maciej Los 4-Feb-19 4:10am

OP wants to remove digits from string...

Wastedtalent 4-Feb-19 4:34am

Yes i suppose the question was phrased badly, either way, as per your answer, Regex would do the job. Maybe I could have put abetter link in.

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