I need to strip out all non standard text characers from a string. I need remove all non ascii and control characters (except line feeds/carriage returns).
And here's a variant of Cosmin's that only walks the string once, but uses an efficient allocation pattern:
function StrippedOfNonAscii(const s: string): string;
var
i, Count: Integer;
begin
SetLength(Result, Length(s));
Count := 0;
for i := 1 to Length(s) do begin
if ((s[i] >= #32) and (s[i] <= #127)) or (s[i] in [#10, #13]) then begin
inc(Count);
Result[Count] := s[i];
end;
end;
SetLength(Result, Count);
end;