Replace special character from a string and pass to xml

Question

Hi, I am receiving a special character like '&' in my string which is being passed to xml and it is failing.

sting a = "Tom & Jerry"

How easily can i remove this & with & and pass to the xml ?

Please advice

if(a.Contains("'@' || '#' || '$' || '&' || '%' || '!' || '~'"))
{
a= a.Replace("&");

return a;

}

Answer 1

Hi @Rock Hitman ,

Thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum.

Which type of project and programming language do you use? Do you use C#?

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For the related questions about C#, you can post here: MSDN Visual C#.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
Tianyu

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Answer 2

If you don't really want to have to remove characters, you need to escape the string before it can be safely saved as XML.
Have a look here to see which proposed solution meets your need.