Actually that regex says to replace all of the characters that the poster wants to keep. It should be [^A-Za-z0-9 ]
.... or one of the others that I posted ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Chabot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Remove everything but numbers and letters from a string The regex to use would look like this "[A-Za-z0-9 ]" -Mike Chabot On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Mike Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ReReplace() would work. > > -Mike Chabot > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Steve Sequenzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to figure out how to remove all characters from a string besides numbers, letters and spaces. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303841 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4