How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#)

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How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#)

Answer 1

I came here looking for a solution for extended ascii characters, but couldnt find it. The closest I found is bzlm's solution. But that works only for ASCII Code upto 127(obviously you can replace the encoding type in his code, but i think it was a bit complex to understand. Hence, sharing this version). Here's a solution that works for extended ASCII codes i.e. upto 255 which is the ISO 8859-1

It finds and strips out non-ascii characters(greater than 255)

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