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I am looking to remove special characters from a string using groovy, i'm nearly there but it is removing the white spaces that are already in place which I want to keep. I only want to remove the special characters (and not leave a whitespace). I am running the below on a PostCode L&65$$ OBH

def removespecialpostcodce = PostCode.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+","")
log.info removespecialpostcodce

Currently it returns L65OBH but I am looking for it to return L65 OBH

Can anyone help?

Rao
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csman
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Use below code :

 PostCode.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]+","")

instead of

 PostCode.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+","")
hedha
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To remove all special characters in a String you can use the invert regex character:

String str = "..\\.-._./-^+* ".replaceAll("[^A-Za-z0-1]","");
System.out.println("str: <"+str+">");

output:

str: <>

to keep the spaces in the text add a space in the character set

String str = "..\\.-._./-^+* ".replaceAll("[^A-Za-z0-1 ]","");
System.out.println("str: <"+str+">");

output:

str: < >
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