Elegantly remove all ASCII characters outside the range 32 -126

[jhollingsworth]

Hello Artisans,

I'm working on a module that includes a geocoder tool. I'm running into an issue in which the data the users are submitting to the module are copied from a web page and sometimes include weird characters (e.g. ASCII 160). This causes the geocoder problems. And by problems, I mean that the geocoder can only find the zip code when without the odd characters, it can find the address.

What I'm looking for is the most elegant way to remove any characters from a text value that fall outside of the ASCII range of 32 -126. Any characters inside that range *shouldn't* cause the geocoder problems.

Extra cool points to anyone from Alteryx that will fix incorporate this fix into the Address tool. :-)

Cheers,

John Hollingsworth

[BrettMRP]

@Jordken Change the expression to read as follows:

regex_replace([_CurrentField_],"[^\xA,\xD,\x20-\x7e]+",'')

[_CurrentField_] being whatever your field name is if you are using the formula tool and not the multi field tool

[MarqueeCrew]

[ -~]

That's the range as elegantly as possible.

Cheers,
Mark

[SideOfRanch]

Is there a way to do this but return if the field had one of the untranslatable characters? I'm trying to identify them the fields and flag them with a 1 if they have a bad character.

[MarqueeCrew]

MIN(Regex_Countmatches([Garbage Data],"^[ -~]"),1)

That might help.

[AGilbert]

Adding another solution to the conversation. 

[Bennu]

Indeed elegant and something I will likely be using regularly to remove 'junk' and mystery hidden characters from data coming from different platforms.  Thank you!
You deserve all the EXTRA COOL points Todd!