RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

[Thierry Douez]

2014-01-29 Ender Nafi Elekcioglu <endernafi at keehuna.com>:

> The statement should clear all whitespaces and non-ascii chars except dash and space.
>
> ~ Ender


[ ...]  -> character class; match any characters in between the brackets
[^...] -> character class; do *NOT* match all characters in between the brackets

So, you can try something like:

put replacetext( mytext, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]", empty) into mytext

a-z  -> any chars from a to z
A-Z  -> any chars from A to Z

Still missing the dash; add it inside the brackets:

put replacetext( mytext, "[^a-zA-Z0-9-]", empty) into mytext

and carry on adding extra chars until you are happy.

Does that makes sense?


Thierry

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