Remove all whitespace from C# string with regex

Question

I am building a string of last names separated by hyphens. Sometimes a whitespace gets caught in there. I need to remove all whitespace from end result.

Sample strin

Answer 1

Regex.Replace does not modify its first argument (recall that strings are immutable in .NET) so the call

Regex.Replace(LastName, @"\s+", "");

leaves the LastName string unchanged. You need to call it like this:

LastName = Regex.Replace(LastName, @"\s+", "");

All three of your regular expressions would have worked. However, the first regex would remove all plus characters as well, which I imagine would be unintentional.