delphi - strip out all non standard text characers from string

Question

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).

Answer 1

if you don't need to do it in-place, but generating a copy of the string, try this code

 type CharSet=Set of Char;

 function StripCharsInSet(s:string; c:CharSet):string;
  var i:Integer;
  begin
     result:='';
     for i:=1 to Length(s) do
       if not (s[i] in c) then 
         result:=result+s[i];
  end;  

and use it like this

 s := StripCharsInSet(s,[#0..#9,#11,#12,#14..#31,#127]);

EDIT: added #127 for DEL ctrl char.

EDIT2: this is a faster version, thanks ldsandon

 function StripCharsInSet(s:string; c:CharSet):string;
  var i,j:Integer;
  begin
     SetLength(result,Length(s));
     j:=0;
     for i:=1 to Length(s) do
       if not (s[i] in c) then 
        begin
         inc(j);
         result[j]:=s[i];
        end;
     SetLength(result,j);
  end;