I think you will need to write your own class to do the cleanup, but you should be able to use character classes in regular expressions to identify legitimate characters and substitute or remove the others. For example, \w will match a word character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and _). See the ActionScript 3.0 reference manual chapter on regular expressions.
Tim --- In [email protected], "TJ Downes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, Im hoping someone else has experienced this and can provide a > simple answer: > > I am finding that a lot of my work with Flex involves either users > cutting and pasting from Word, or I am importing data from external > systems. Often there are invalid or special characters, such as > apostrophes, which need to be stripped. > > Is there an easy way to perform this "string cleaning" or am I forced > to write a class that lists all these characters and replaces them > with their valid values? >
