[thelist] ColdFusion - Remove special characters

[Erik Goodlad]

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I need to take a string, and replace any special characters (i.e.
periods, '&', space, etc).
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Jon,

The following will remove ALL characters that are not letters, numbers, or
underscores:

REReplace(your_param_here, "[^0-9a-zA-Z_]", "", "ALL")

Later,
Erik Goodlad
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