> that replaces all punctuation from the string with nothing...
>  well that's if the "punct" bit is supposed to read
> [[:punct:]] - it looks like you have an extra space in  there...

Correct!

> > my regex is not so good.... what is this one doing :
> >
> > #REreplace(request.myvar,"([[:punct:] ])","","all")#

What this regex says is:

Find me all occurrences of either punctuation OR a space and remove them
all.  This would leave you with a string with alpha numeric characters
and line breaks/tabs etc.

Anything in square brackets is a grouping of things to search for, so if
I put:

[abc]

It would search for an occurrence of either a or b or c (note case).

HTH

Paul

PS One of these days, I'm going to write a simple regex page that will
give examples and that you can test stuff out on - hey... I've got half
an hour!





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