Questions tagged [non-alphanumeric]

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Most Pythonic was to strip all non-alphanumeric leading characters from string

For example !@#123myname --> myname !@#yourname!@#123 --> yourname!@#123 There are plenty of S.O. examples of "most pythonic ways of removing all alphanumeric characters" but if I want to remove only non-alphabet characters leading up to first…
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Insert space after every non alpahumeric character

Am trying to insert space before and after every non alphanumeric character in the string, for example string like (good+bad)*nice which will be entered by user, I want to make it look like ( good + bad ) * nice. The reason i want to do this, is…
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PHP check if string contains certain percentage of alphanumeric characters

I have a php string $comment sometimes the $comment box will contain some non alphanumeric characters, is there a way to find out what percentage of $comment is alphanumeric? Thanks
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Java regex to find a specific substring without alpha numeric characters before or after it

Not too familiar with regex so could use some pointers in the right direction if possible. I have some possible String values which can be something like the following: "88976756 ABC 33ddf33a24" "89999ABC 3hhhj33" "7ffhh7AB C78788sd" What I need is…
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Pig Latin- keep non-letters python

I am currently writing a pig Latin code and it requires all the non-letters to be ignored ie left in the same place of the word. For instance, Tom's would be om'sTay. So I deleted all non-alphabetic characters using: word = re.sub('[^A-Za-z]',…
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