title: How to ignore certain characters in a String / Stream?
body: <p>Let's say, I write some code to print out "Hello World." </p>
  
  <p>Could I use some sort of ignore list of characters to be ignored from my print string (in this case Hello World). For instance, I want to remove the r in "hello wo<strong>r</strong>ld" so that the output is "Hello Wold"</p>
  
  <p>I have a value that I am using. I have the following characters:
  &amp;, \, and *.</p>
  
  <p>I think one of these characters is causing me to have some of my values ignored.</p>
  
  <p>Normally I would just test this myself, but I am not able to do this at this time.</p>