Question

Some text fields in my database have bad control characters embedded. I only noticed this when trying to serialize an object and get an xml error on char  and . There are probably others.

How do I replace them using C#? I thought something like this would work:

text.Replace('\x2', ' ');

but it doesn’t.
Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Strings are immutable – you need to reassign:

text = text.Replace('\x2', ' ');