If you want to convert diacritic chars to non-diacritic you can use
xdmp:diacritic-less
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On May 11, 2012, at 6:50 AM, "Whitby, Rob, Springer Healthcare UK"
<rob.whi...@springer.com> wrote:
> I had to do something similar - try this:
>
> let $string := "Peña, replaces dia char"
> return replace($string, '[^\p{L}|\p{N}]+', '')
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com
> [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Rajasekaran,
> Santhosh
> Sent: 11 May 2012 13:08
> To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Need to Remove spaces, punctuations,
> parens and ect., from the given string (need to remove all character other
> than A-Z and 0-9)
>
> Hi Jakob,
>
> Thanks, Ya it worked well, but it also removes the diacritics character also.
> If i do not want to remove diacritics the what to do?
>
> Eg: -->
> let $string := "Peña, replaces dia char"
> return replace($string, '[^a-zA-Z]+', '')
> ==> Peareplacesdiachar
>
> I need "Peñareplacesdiachar"
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com
> [general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix
> [jakob....@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:22 AM
> To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Need to Remove spaces, punctuations,
> parens and ect., from the given string (need to remove all character other
> than A-Z and 0-9)
>
> Hi,
>
> it's probably easier if you declare the character groups you want to
> keep and excluding everything else, like so:
>
> let $string := "AB cd/EF;gh"
> return replace($string, '[^a-zA-Z]+', '') (: everything that's not an
> alphabetical character will be replaced :)
> ==> "ABcdEFgh"
>
> cheers,
> Jakob.
>
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Rajasekaran, Santhosh
> <santhosh.rajaseka...@hmhpub.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have the below requirement in Xquery.
>>
>>
>>
>> Given a string I need to remove spaces, punctuation, parens and etc.,
>> (I.e)except alpha(A-Z or a-z) and numeric 0-9
>>
>>
>>
>> Eg:
>>
>>
>>
>> Input Expected Output
>>
>>
>>
>> San & co., Sanco
>>
>> It is a string Itisastring
>>
>> New (value) Newvalue
>>
>> At,the hill + school Atthehillschool
>>
>> Oh!.. is it, I don't know OhisitIdontknow
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let me know how do I achieve this. Do I need to add all this
>> characters (spaces,punctuation,parens and etc., in regular expression and
>> replace that one by one) using fn:replace() function.
>>
>> Or
>>
>> Do we have any other better suggestion?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Santhosh
>>
>>
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