Regular Expression

[Dante]

Hello again. I know this is simple but I suck at RegEx.

Can anyone here provide me with a regex that will filter out
everything except normal letters? Casing won't matter.

Thanks so much,
Dante

[Andrew Urquhart]

Re: Regular Expression

"Dante" <pianoman@reno. com> wrote in message
news:f05d63b6.0 402231826.332c6 8be@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hello again. I know this is simple but I suck at RegEx.
>
> Can anyone here provide me with a regex that will filter out
> everything except normal letters? Casing won't matter.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Dante[/color]

Actually it's a little difficult to know what 'normal letters' means, so I'm
guessing it means a-z0-9 and whitespace. If so:

var strTest = "This's a mixture of <em>normal letters</em> and
!!*£&$(£_\"'#@~ ";
var strFilteredTest = strTest.replace (/[^a-z0-9\s]/ig, ""));

If you also want to strip out HTML then use something like the following
before the above RegExp:

..replace(/<\/?[^>]*>/g, " ")

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