How can I write a regex to exclude both alphanumeric characters and spaces?

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I have the following regex pattern, which strips out non, alpha-numerics.

[^0-9A-Za-z]

Works pretty good.

I was hoping to mod this regex so it looks for alphanumerics AND spaces. How can I tweak it so it also accepts spaces?

JaredPar · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-18 03:13:50Z

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Put a space into the brackets

[^0-9A-Za-z ]

You're question is also slightly ambiguous. I'm assuming you're looking to exclude both alphanumerics and spaces.

edited Jun 18, 2009 at 3:13

answered Jun 18, 2009 at 2:43

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Pure.Krome Over a year ago

thanks mate. I've got some sql udf that returns a string, with all non-alphanumerics stripped out. I wanted to make it strip out everthing BUT alpha/numberic/spaces. (and i replace all spaces with a '-' character). works great. thanks. (DB is sql2008, btw).

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