Strip Special Characters or REGEx in asp
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Strip Special Characters in ASP


Function StripSpecialChar(inStr)
dim sOut,outStr,arrSpecialChar,intCounter,arrSpecialChar1
' arrSpecialChar  = Array("%20","&","&","#","+","@","(","","","","","","","","")

arrSpecialChar=Array("#","$","%","&","@","`","/",":",";","<","=",">","?","[","\","]","^","{","|","}","~","'","+",",")
outStr=replace(inStr," ","-")
intCounter = 0

Do Until intCounter = UBOUND(arrSpecialChar)+1
  sOut = replace(outStr,arrSpecialChar(intCounter),"")
  intCounter = intCounter + 1
  outStr = sOut
Loop
StripSpecialChar = outStr
End Function

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

dim regEx

Set regEx = New RegExp

regEx.Pattern = "[ /\<|\>|\|\'|\%|\;|\(|\)|\&|\+|\/g]"

regEx.IgnoreCase = True

regEx.Global = True

regEx.Replace(fulltext,"-")

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

dim regEx

Set regEx = New RegExp

regEx.Pattern = "(<a[^>]+>)|(<\/a>)"

regEx.IgnoreCase = True

regEx.Global = True

regEx.Replace(fulltext,"-")

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------