replace all caracters in a string that are not one of 0-9 or a-z or A-Z with a space...

[Support123]

hi all, How would one go about replacing a character in a string with a space where the character is not in the range of a-z or A-Z or 0-9 ??? the following Code did not have the planned outcome... Dim cleanString As String = [String].Empty Dim reg As New Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9]") Dim coll As Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection = reg.Matches(LineText, ) For i As Integer = 0 To LineText.Length - 1 MsgBox(coll(i).Value) If (coll(i).Value = [String].Empty) Then cleanString = cleanString + " " Else cleanString = cleanString + coll(i).Value End If Next the result was not pritty.... it removed spaces as well... how do i keep spaces and replace (NOT REMOVE) other characters with a space??? Thank you in advance.

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[Scott Dorman]

Try using the Regex.Replace[^] function.

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[Guffa]

With a single line of code: Dim cleanString = Regex.Replace(LineText, "[^A-Za-z\d ]", " ")

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