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

Maybe you have the compiler option "strict" of, because with

Char.IsSymbol("*")

I get a compiler error

BC30512: Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'String' to 'Char'.

To define a Character literal in VB.NET, you must add a c to the string, like this:

Char.IsSymbol("*"c)