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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Stripping a string...how?

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Qqite
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Posted: 29th Jan 2012 07:35
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This not really of question of "how do I" but rather question of "how do I do this without taking up so much time?"

I'm trying to cut any character out of a string that is not a number, letter, valid punctuation mark, or space. What I'm talking about if those pesky return characters and such.

Is there an easy way to just delete all characters that are not valid visual characters?

I know I COULD list out all 345346456546 characters to check but that seems so slow.

Thanks in advance,
Qqite

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Hodgey
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Posted: 29th Jan 2012 08:16
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Quote: "I know I COULD list out all 345346456546 characters to check but that seems so slow."

Well, in the end, you will have to check against every character in the string won't you?

You can make checking somewhat efficient by checking against ASCII numbers and eliminate the possibilites that way.
E.g If asc(your_char) < 32 then delete_your_char()

Of course there will be more conditions to check.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2012 09:18
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Wow, I just checked the ascii chart and everything under 32 is the junk I don't need.

Well...that was easy. Now I just need to find out why my file reader is failing. ONWARD!

Thanks Hodgey

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Hodgey
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Posted: 29th Jan 2012 09:57
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That's it? Well that was quick. Good luck with the next bug.

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