RE: How to remove all non-alphanumerics?

Beautiful! Thank you sir.

Kevin Collins

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:34 PM
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> Subject: RE:  How to remove all non-alphanumerics?
> 
> > My first thought was to use translate(), but the second
> > argument would have to contain every possible character I
> > want to remove, which seems pretty unwieldy.
> 
> There's a trick to this:
> 
> translate($x, translate($x, 'abcde', ''), '')
> 
> will remove all characters except a,b,c,d, and e from your string $x.
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
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