Re: Strip non-alphanumerics from beginning and end?

Perfect, thanks very much. I think I'll probably die before I'm ever handy with regex. On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:12 -0700, Brian Dunning wrote:

Is there a command to strip all non-alphanumerics form the beginning and end of a string? Ex.: '&^%kj.h,kj..*(' becomes 'kj.h,kj'

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