or something like:

rereplace(myMSWordText, "[^[:alnum:]|[:punct:]]", "", "ALL")

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taz -=TT=- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 September 2002 13:18
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] non ascii MSword malarchy
> 
> 
> Its a complete arse.. I don't think there is a good way to 
> stop the crap
> getting through, so I always tell clients to paste it into 
> notepad, then
> copy it from there and paste it into activedit
> 
> I think a bunch of Regexs to get rid of all the M$ crap would 
> be a hell of a
> lot of code.
> 
> Taz
> 
> 
> > No -- various clients have CMS where they are copying 
> contents of a Word
> doc
> > into a form field (activeedit for instance) and then save 
> it to their db.
> > I'm looking for a way to strip illegal characters from this 
> when it is
> > submitted and convert them to ascii characters...
> >
> > hope that's clearer!
> 
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