cfsearch and weird characters 1

[sevex]

I've been finding weird characters in user inputted strings are causing cfsearch to display an ugly coldfusion error. is there any way to parse out any characters other than numbers and letters?

 

[CFDude]

How about this:

<cfset myString = &quot;!@&*()?*@$This is a test 123&quot;>
<cfset myString = ReReplace(myString,&quot;[^aA-zZ,^0-9,^ ]&quot;,&quot;&quot;,&quot;ALL&quot;)>

-- or this will remove the specified characters ---

<cfset myString = ReReplace(myString,&quot;[$!@&*()?><?##]&quot;,&quot;&quot;,&quot;ALL&quot;)>

 

[sevex]

thanks, that should do the trick