{"id":74421,"date":"2015-11-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/11\/07\/powertip-replace-non-alphabetic-characters-in-string\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:37","slug":"powertip-replace-non-alphabetic-characters-in-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-replace-non-alphabetic-characters-in-string\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Replace Non-Alphabetic Characters in String"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters
           (such as commas and periods)?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the –Replace<\/b> operator, and specify a regex pattern ‘[^a-zA-Z]’<\/b>, for example:<\/p>\n

$a = ‘Never a foot too far, even.’<\/p>\n

$a -Replace ‘[^a-zA-Z]’,”<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters            (such as commas and periods)?  Use the –Replace operator, and specify a regex pattern ‘[^a-zA-Z]’, for example: $a = ‘Never a foot too far, even.’ $a -Replace ‘[^a-zA-Z]’,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,526,3,336,45],"class_list":["post-74421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-regex","tag-scripting-guy","tag-strings","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to replace non-alphabetic characters in a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to replace a string that contains non-alphabetic characters            (such as commas and periods)?  Use the –Replace operator, and specify a regex pattern ‘[^a-zA-Z]’, for example: $a = ‘Never a foot too far, even.’ $a -Replace ‘[^a-zA-Z]’,”<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}