striptoalpha(
striptoalpha(
TEXT
)

The striptoalpha( function removes everything but alphabetic letters from a text item.

Parameters

This function has one parameter:

text – is the item of text that you want to strip.

Description

The striptoalpha( function removes everything but alphabetic letters from a text item. Everything else (numbers, spaces, punctuation, non-English letters, etc.) will be removed from the text.

    striptoalpha("Joy's birthday is on 7/12") ☞ Joysbirthdayison

See Also

- percentescape( -- encodes specified characters using percent encoding.
- percentunescape( -- decodes text that contains percent encoding.
- strip( -- strips off leading and trailing blanks and other whitespace (carriage returns, tabs, etc.)
- stripchar( -- extracts characters you don't want from a text item.
- stripdiacriticals( -- strips diacritical marks from text.
- stripprintable( -- strips non-printable characters from text.
- striptonum( -- removes everything but numeric digits from a text item.
- urldecode( -- decodes text that contains percent encoded characters.
- urlencode( -- converts text into a legal URL (by converting spaces into `%20`). WARNING: THIS FUNCTION IS OBSOLETE.

History

Version | Status | Notes
10.0 | No Change | Carried over from Panorama 6.0