Replacing Unicode characters with space

CSharp · Console

/Program.cs

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		var states = new List<State>()
		{new State("CA", "California"), new State("NY", "New York"), new State("AL", "Alabama"), new State("NV", "Nevada")};
		var myOrder = new List<string>()
		{"AL", "NY"};
		var result = states.Where(s => myOrder.Exists(c => string.Equals(c, s.Code, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))).OrderBy(s => myOrder.IndexOf(s.Code));
		foreach (var res in result)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(res.Code);
		}
	}

	public class State
	{
		public string Code;
		public string Name;
		public State(string code, string name)
		{
			Code = code;
			Name = name;
		}
	}
}