Removing special characters from a string

Question

I have a string in my Java program which is read from database.

This may contain special characters in between as below:

Answer 1

Try the regex,

String result= yourString.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+","");

That gives you the result with only Alpha Numeric.

If you want only Alphabets

String resultWithAlphabetsOnly= yourString.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z]+","");