Strange TrimEnd behaviour with \ char

Question

I am using TrimEnd to remove certain characters from the end of a string. Initially I thought this would work:

    Dim strNew As String = \"Employees\\Sickne         


        

Answer 1

Re-read the documentation of TrimEnd; you are using it wrong: TrimEnd will remove any char that is in the array from the end of the string, as long as it still finds such chars.

For example:

Dim str = "aaebbabab"
Console.WriteLine(str.TrimEnd(new Char() { "a"c, "b"c })

will output aa since it removes all trailing as and bs.

If your input looks exactly like in your example, your easiest recurse is to use Substring:

Console.WriteLine(strNew.Substring(0, strNew.Length - strTrim.Length))

Otherwise you can resort to regular expressions.