Question

I am having a few problems with trying to replace backslashes in a date string on C# .net.

So far I am using:

string.Replace(@"\","-")

but it hasnt done the replacement. Could anyone please help?

Answer 1

string.Replace does not modify the string itself but returns a new string, which most likely you are throwing away. Do this instead:

myString= myString.Replace(@"\","-");

On a side note, this kind of operation is usually seen in code that manually mucks around with formatted date strings. Most of the time there is a better way to do what you want (which is?) than things like this.