in reply to Removing Special Characters

Step 1: Define which characters you consider to be "special".

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Re^2: Removing Special Characters
by herveus (Prior) on Nov 01, 2011 at 12:47 UTC
    Howdy!

    Step 1 (alternate): Define the set of characters that are not "special".

    It may be simpler to define the characters you want to keep rather than the ones to exclude. See also the tr///dc solution above.

    yours,
    Michael
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