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Hello all,

I am wondering if anyone can help me with a regular expression.

I need a regex to count and return the amount of nonealphabetical characters in a string (not including a space chr(32).

i.e hello world!! will return 2 because of the two exclamation marks at the end

Any replies greatly appreciated.

Thanks

You can do it without a regex with something like

Code:

$calc($len($1-) - $count($1-,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,$chr(32)))

An equivalent regex solution is

Code:

$regex($1-,/[^ a-z]/gi)

Hi qwerty,

Really helpful.

thanks

You can also use:

Code:

/[[:punct:]]/g

or:
/[^\s\w]/g

Code:

var %t = $chr(15) test!123 $chr(9)
echo -sg ^a-z: $regex(%t,/[^ a-z]/gi) --- \S\W: $regex(%t,/[^\s\w]/g) --- punct: $regex(%t,/[[:punct:]]/g)

by no means equivalents (...the request was quite explicit)

well played. I was thinking chars 32 and after. I didn't consider the tab

In comparison, qwerty's regex method is like a "negative" check while mine is a "positive."