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Replace Special Characters with Hyphens

Description
Replaces special characters with hyphens. Useful for cleaning up file names.
Language
C#.net
Minimum Version
Created By
Eric J
Contributors
-
Date Created
Aug 19, 2014
Date Last Modified
Sep 4, 2015

Macro Code

using System;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
             return text.Replace(" ","-")     //space
                        .Replace(":","-")     //colon
                        .Replace(";","-")     //semi-colon
                        .Replace("\\","-")    //Backslash
                        .Replace("/","-")     //Slash
                        .Replace("&","-")     //Ampersand
                        .Replace("%","-")     //Percent
                        .Replace("?","-")     //QuestionMark
                        .Replace("—","-")     //Em dash
                        .Replace("–","-")     //En dash (kindof redundant)
                        .Replace("“","-")     //Smart Quote
                        .Replace("”","-")     //Smart Quote
                        .Replace("’","-")     //Typographic apostrophe
                        .Replace("[","-")     //Left Bracket
                        .Replace("]","-")     //Right Bracket
                        .Replace("®","-")     //Registered TradeMark
                        .Replace("*","-")     //star
                        .Replace("#","-");    //number sign / pound / hash / Octothorp
    }
}