String.Replace does not seem to replace brackets with empty string

Question

The following bit of C# code does not seem to do anything:

String str = \"{3}\";
str.Replace(\"{\", String.Empty);
str.Replace(\"}\", String.Empty);

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Answer 1

besides all of the suggestions so far - you could also accomplish this without changing the value of the original string by using the replace functions inline in the output...

String str = "{3}";

Console.WriteLine(str.Replace("{", String.Empty).Replace("}", String.Empty));