Re: Regex.Replace...

Thanks, that did the trick!

I will have to read up more on Regex.

Regards,
Gary Harpin
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> languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Efran
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> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] Regex.Replace...
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> Hi Gary,
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> You have to edit your expression in order to do exactly what you are
> looking for; after replacing any ones and zeroes as you have done, you
> could easily perform a regex replace as the following one:
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> // ...
> cleankey =3D Regex.Replace(cleankey, "[^a-zA-Z2-7]", String.Empty);
> // ...
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> HTH
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> Efran Cobisi
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> Gary Harpin wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to use Regex.Replace() to clean a string before working
> on
> > it.
> >
> > The incoming string can be of the form " 5E1Y - UMCF - PZNG - RPR4 -
> > H4KF - 6ICJ - HQ " or "5E1Y:UMCF:PZNG" or ... and I need to replace
> any
> > ones and zeros with Is and Os and the strip it of everything that is
> not
> > A-Z or 2-7. "5EIYUMCFPZNGRPR4H4KF6ICJHQ"
> >
> > So far I do the following:
> > ...
> > cleankey =3D cleankey.Replace("1", "I").Replace("O", "0");
> > cleankey =3D Regex.Replace(cleankey, @"-([A-Z2-7])*", "");
> > ...
> >
> > The data will come from multiple sources (database, files, user
> input)
> > so need to handle different encodings, the above code fails on the
> first
> > stample because the last '-'.
> >
> > I don't understand regex that well and could do with a hand.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gary Harpin
> >
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