How can i remove special characters and spaces from a string

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How can i remove all special characters and spaces from a string. So that are only letters in the string.

Many thanks!

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Are you familiar with how to use pIpes? Especially the text utility pipe?

If you install the Text Utility Pipe and then add a rule that looks like this

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The regex value to be put there is:

'[^A-Za-z0-9\-]'

That will strip all special characters when the form is saved:

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Hello @moe

Thank you for the tip earlier.

I’ve implemented the suggested regex formula and made sure to include blank spaces, as I don’t want them removed. However, I’ve noticed that the pipe output is still replacing blank spaces with a plus sign (+).

I also tried inverting the logic—excluding special characters rather than allowing only specific ones—but encountered the same result, where blank spaces are still converted to +.

Additionally, I tested the Regex Pipe, but I wasn’t able to save the rule as it requires a replacement value, and I only want to replace with an actual blank (empty string).

Any further assistance you can provide would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Sahira