[thelist] regexp replace?

[Hassan Schroeder]

Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
>
> I've never done any regular expressions before - I was wondering if there was a "simple" way to
> take a string like a SSN and strip the "-" out..

? What language are you using? Most programming languages have a
simple character replace function along the lines of (Java here)

   String newSSNString = originalSSNString.replace('-', '');

HTH!
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