filter chars()

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Each character in text a is checked to see if it matches the regular expression b. If it does, it is retained. If not, it is replaced by text c or, if c is empty, it is removed.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

a

Text.

b

Regular expression.

c

Replacement text.

Examples

Parameter a

Parameter b

Parameter c

Result

80336 München

[0-9A-Z]

.

80336.M......

80336 München

[0-9A-Z]

80336M

80336 München

[0-9A-z]

80336Mnchen

80336 München

[^ü]

ue

80336 Muenchen

Note: In order to remove all characters that do not belong to a Base64 block, this function can be used with the regular expression [A-Za-z0-9+/=] in parameter b and an empty parameter c.