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Removes nonprinting characters (character codes 1 – 29) and special Microsoft Word characters from the specified string or changes them to spaces (character code 32).
Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word (in Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Function CleanString ( _
String As String _
) As String
'Usage
Dim instance As _Global
Dim String As String
Dim returnValue As String
returnValue = instance.CleanString(String)
string CleanString(
string String
)
Parameters
- String
Type: System.String
Required String. The source string.
Return Value
Type: System.String
Remarks
This property returns the result as a String.
The following characters are converted as described in this table.
Character code |
Description |
|---|---|
7 (beep) |
Removed unless preceded by character 13 (paragraph), then converted to character 9 (tab). |
10 (line feed) |
Converted to character 13 (paragraph) unless preceded by character 13, then removed. |
13 (paragraph) |
Unchanged. |
31 (optional hyphen) |
Removed. |
160 (nonbreaking space) |
Converted to character 32 (space). |
172 (optional hyphen) |
Removed. |
176 (nonbreaking space) |
Converted to character 32 (space). |
182 (paragraph mark) |
Removed. |
183 (bullet) |
Converted to character 32 (space). |