Question

you can’t use string.Remove inside a static method because Remove is an instance method. So what alternatives do you have besides regex to remove a specific character in a string? What I’m trying to do is remove any backslashes in a long string that I have. so “\” for example is in a string that I am evaluating.

Example:

public static FacebookSession CreateNewSessionFromCookie(HttpCookie facebookAuthCookie)
{
    ..some logic
    String.Remove(facebookAuthCookie["\"access_token"].Length-1, 1);
    ...rest of the code

I get an immediate error on the Remove method of “Cannot access non-static method Remove in static context”

So above I attempted to remove the last “\” in the cookie value. Ideally I want to remove all instances of “\” in that string but I can’t get this to even test because of that complile error.

Answer 1

Hm, I think you might be thinking of this wrong. You can use String.Remove inside any method you’ve written, static or not, but String.Remove is an instance method of a string. You’d call it like so:

string foo = "abc";
foo = foo.Replace("b", "z"); // not String.Replace(...)