how to find position of last alphabet from string?

Question

Hi I have a mix type of string. i want to remove special symbol from word which are using end of the words only. for ex.

 "Kapil-Kumar?hasija--

i need to remove special symbols which are coming after my sentence. So for this i need to find position of my last alphabet.

You're not looking for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3742495/where-can-i-get-a-list-of-unicode-chars-by-class ? — atlaste, Jan 21 '13 at 09:52
no they can be anywhere but i need to remove only from end of the my word — user1089169, Jan 21 '13 at 09:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '13 at 09:57

You could use this:

string s = "Kapil-Kumar?hasija--";

while (s.Length > 0 && !Char.IsLetter(s[s.Length-1]))
  s = s.Substring(0, s.Length-1);

Console.WriteLine(s); // prints "Kapil-Kumar?hasija"

If digits are also permitted at the end, use Char.IsLetterOrDigit instead of Char.IsLetter.

how to find position of last alphabet from string?

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