Char.IsSymbol(“*”) is false

Question

I\'m working on a password validation routine, and am surprised to find that VB does not consider \'*\' to be a symbol per the Char.IsSymbol() check. Here is the output from

Answer 1

If you simply need to know that character is something else than digit or letter, use just

!char.IsLetterOrDigit(c) 

preferably with

&& !char.IsControl(c)