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Strip unwanted characters from a string

Strip all except numbers and letters

<cfset newstr = rereplace(str, "[^A-Za-z0-9]+", "", "all")>

Strip all except numbers

<cfset newstr = rereplace(str, "[^0-9]+", "", "all")>


Strip all except CAPITAL letters

<cfset newstr = rereplace(str, "[^A-Z]+", "", "all")>

You get the point, this post is just for my own records. I keep forgetting how to do this and now I can look it up on my own blog.. thank god for that!!

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nwel wrote.... (mail)

this code saved my ass..
thanks a lot.!
iloveyou!

26 February 2007 6:16 cet  

Ash wrote....

Thanks!Saved my ass, too!

14 March 2008 4:19 cet  

Andrew wrote....

Thanks for the tip. It's a real timesaver! :)

22 August 2008 20:31 cet  

khurram wrote.... (site)

Good one... Gonna use

02 October 2009 3:19 cet  

Lynn wrote.... (site)

I taught myself Cold Fusion (basics mimicking SQL) 10 years ago.Can I use this on the output?The second page that returns the data? Trying to avoid cleaning data already in database. Need to take out a single quote in names that messes up the other code on the results page.

Thanks

07 January 2011 19:18 cet  

Salvi Pascual wrote.... (site)

Thanks for sharing that code, it comes to save me in a rush last minute software delivery :) with errors :(

23 February 2012 15:34 cet  

Link Worx Seo wrote.... (site)

Hey, this was really helpful. Was trying to strip all characters from a string and replace it with dashes for naming directories when a directory is created or when a new page is created. Glad I searched the right thing. Google

08 March 2012 21:29 cet  

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