Remove non alpha numeric characters from a string - ActionScript Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 42169

at February 28, 2011 21:40 by gromitski

Initial Code

var r:RegExp = new RegExp(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9]+/g) ;
yourString = yourString.replace(r, "");

Initial URL

http://gromitski.com/blog/removing-non-alpha-numeric-characters-from-a-string/

Initial Description

Useful for stripping out backslashes, hyphens and other punctuation

Initial Title

Remove non alpha numeric characters from a string

Initial Tags

regex, actionscript

Initial Language

ActionScript