Remove all special characters, punctuation and spaces from string

Asked 2011-04-30T17:41:23.853

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I need to remove all special characters, punctuation and spaces from a string so that I only have letters and numbers.

python regex string

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Here is a regex to match a string of characters that are not a letters or numbers:

[^A-Za-z0-9]+

Here is the Python command to do a regex substitution:

re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', mystring)

answered 2011-04-30T17:46:17.710