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Java to remove non-alpha characters

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2/13/2014 2:03 PM

I need a Java routine that I can put in to my PF to remove the non a-z charaters (upper and lower) from the employee name and compress the remaing good characters into a string.

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2/13/2014 2:31 PM

I presume you mean javascript.
Use the string replace method combined with a regular expression.
See www.w3schools.com for a very easy to navigate and thorough reference to the javascript language.
[CODE] var strString = "My Name"; var strJustUppers = strString.replace(/[a-z]/g,""); // replace lower case letters with nothing var strJustUppers = strJustUppers.replace(/\s/g,""); // replace spaces with nothing [CODE]
After the code above execute, the variable strJustUppers should have the value of "MN".

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2/18/2014 1:22 PM

thanks so much, I was able to use this:

AlphaLastName.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/,"") it is more than just spaces, need to get rid of dash..apostrophe and all the 'funky' characters in the last name