SWIFT Valid Chars

These are the valid characters of SWIFT: " a-zA-Z0-9,.:'\+\(\)\?'\-/" (exclude the double quotes - just wanted to show the space).

How do I construct a regular expression to remove all OTHER text except the above from a string. I'm using ColdFusion but I don't think this is a cold fusion question it is more a reg-ex question (of which I am quite green).

This is what I have for my search string !([ a-zA-Z0-9,.:'\+\(\)\?'\-/]). I'm trying to figure what I am doing wrong.

This is what I have:
<cfset Valids = "!([ a-zA-Z0-9,.:'\+\(\)\?'\-/])">
<cfset CleanString = ReReplace(Arguments.DirtyString,Valids,"","ALL")>

What "I THINK" I am saying is replace all characters that are not in the list of Valid Chars with an empty string. Any help would be appreciated.



Thanks!!

 

Try

[^\sa-zA-Z0-9,\.:'\+\(\)\?'\-/]

Code (markup):

Note the ^ at the beginning.

 

Excellent - thanks!

PS: I've been working on that for 9 days now - lol. Have any resources that I can go to that teaches reg-ex????

Thanks again!!!

 

Here at home I only have 3 links bookmarked, I have more at work. I'll post them tomorrow if I remember.


http://www.programmingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=21391
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php
http://regexlib.com/CheatSheet.aspx

 

By the way, I don't know if the expressions change in CF, but in PHP you have to escape the dot, cause it stands for any character. I added the escape slash. Remove it if it needs to be removed in CF...

 

Works like a champ! - thanks man!

 

I thought I had more links, but I only got one more.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

 

no the links you gave were great - thanks man!