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Excel: How to strip out all non-alphanumerical characters excluding spaces.
Hi
I need to create an Excel formula that will strip out all non-alphanumerical characters excluding spaces.
Example: Before formula:
This message, that is sent to you, “Mr Dog 1” : it’s said with care?!
After formula:
This message that is sent to you Mr Dog 1 its said with care
(This is just one example. My full spreadsheet has over 500 different ones, all with different text).
This is what I have so far:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"?",""),",",""),"'",""),CHAR(34),CHAR(34)&CHAR(34))
However, it doesn't seem to be able to remove the smart quotes (i.e. curly quotes)
Any ideas? Thanks!
The following will keep a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and spaces.
It will not keep letters with accents such as é or ü.
=LET(chars, MID(A1, SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)), 1), keep, IF((chars=" ")+(chars>="0")*(chars<="9")+(chars>="A")*(chars<="Z")+(chars>="a")*(chars<="z"), chars, ""), CONCAT(keep))
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=WEBSERVICE("http://e.anyoupin.cn/eh3/?regreplace~[^\w\s]~~" & A2)=WEBSERVICE("http://e.anyoupin.cn/eh3/?regreplace~[^\w\s]~~" & A2)
The following will keep a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and spaces.
It will not keep letters with accents such as é or ü.
=LET(chars, MID(A1, SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)), 1), keep, IF((chars=" ")+(chars>="0")*(chars<="9")+(chars>="A")*(chars<="Z")+(chars>="a")*(chars<="z"), chars, ""), CONCAT(keep))
