Easy RegEx question

[Alan Silver]

Hello,

Suppose I have a string and I want to strip out all characters that are
not plain letters or digits. How do I do this? I'm sure it's a pretty
simple regex, but I'm not very good at them ;-(

TIA

 

[Daniel Walzenbach]

Check this out!

http://www.regexlib.com/

Greetings

Daniel Walzenbach

 

[jeff_carver]

VB.NET example:

Dim strOld As String = "?Nowhere^Man&123%"
Dim strNew = Regex.Replace(strOld, "[^0-9a-zA-Z]", "")

strNew should now = "NowhereMan123"

 

[Alan Silver]

VB.NET example:

Dim strOld As String = "?Nowhere^Man&123%"
Dim strNew = Regex.Replace(strOld, "[^0-9a-zA-Z]", "")

strNew should now = "NowhereMan123"

Thanks, that was exactly what I wanted!!

 

[Alan Silver]

Check this out!

http://www.regexlib.com/

Thanks, that's a great resource. Pity they don't have a better way to
browse the contents. I found the searching very hit and miss. It would
have been nice if they had put the regexs into categories for easy
browsing.

Still, worth knowing about. Thanks again.