Fastest way to dump special characters?

[laredotornado]

Hello,
I am running Java 1.3 on Solaris. I was hoping there is a nice,
quick, and easy way to take a string that may contain non-alpha numeric
characters (characters that aren't in 0-9, a-z, or A-Z) and return the
same string with all those characters removed. Sure I could do this
with all kinds of for-loops but I figure there is an expert out there
who knows how to do tthis in one line.
I am grateful for that person's advice, - Dave

 

[Real Gagnon]

with all kinds of for-loops but I figure there is an expert out there

who knows how to do tthis in one line.

Try with myString.replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]","");