JAVA EXAMPLE PROGRAMS

JAVA EXAMPLE PROGRAMS

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Program: How to remove non-ascii characters from a string?


Description:

Some times we need to handle text data, wherein we have to handle only ascii characters. Below example shows how to remove non-ascii characters from the given string by using regular expression.


Code:
package com.java2novice.string;

public class MyNonAsciiString {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		String str = "Bj��rk����oacute�";
		System.out.println(str);
		str = str.replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "");
		System.out.println("After removing non ASCII chars:");
		System.out.println(str);
	}
}

Example Output

Bj��rk����oacute�
After removing non ASCII chars:
Bjrkoacute

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I'm Nataraja Gootooru, programmer by profession and passionate about technologies. All examples given here are as simple as possible to help beginners. The source code is compiled and tested in my dev environment.

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