how to remove special characters in a string using pattern matching

[venu babu.k]

Hi,

This is venu,

Iam trying to find the special character in a string which is not an (a-z,A-Z) character.By using regular expression iam able to find other than (a-z,A-Z) character.
But i want to remove that special character. or any other technique you know.

example:
String str="BayernMünchenAmateure";
here ü must remove.

If any body knows help me............
Thanks in advance

[John Pradeep.v]

Hi Venu,
Instead of finding the special character (black listing) just extract those characters you are interested in... (white listing) this way you dont have to maintain a huge list of special characters.

[Matthew Brown]

In this particular case, though, I'd expect there'd be a need to replace the special characters, not remove them. (E.g. 'ü' to 'u' or 'eu').

[venu babu.k]

venu babu.k wrote:
Hi,

This is venu,

Iam trying to find the special character in a string which is not an (a-z,A-Z) character.By using regular expression iam able to find other than (a-z,A-Z) character.
But i want to remove that special character. or any other technique you know.

example:
String str="BayernMünchenAmateure";
here ü must remove.

If any body knows help me............
Thanks in advance

Thanks for your suggestions