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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Remove Special Characters and Numbers From a Wordlist Post 303032803 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 24th of March 2019 12:12:07 PM
Old 03-24-2019
Try:
Code:
$ echo "This134isastrangeword33 This134isàstrangërword33@%$" | sed 's/[^[:alpha:]]//g'
ThisisastrangewordThisisàstrangërword
$echo "This134isastrangeword33 This134isàstrangërword33@%$" | sed 's/[^a-zA-z]//g'
ThisisastrangewordThisisstrangrword

^ means negation
[^[:alpha:]] mean any non-letter.
[^a-zA-Z] means any non-ascii letter
sed 's/[^[:alpha:]]//g' means delete any non-letter on a line
 

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Wordlist(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     Wordlist(3pm)

NAME
Pod::Wordlist -- English words that come up in Perl documentation SYNOPSIS
None! Take that! ABOUT
Pod::Wordlist is used by Pod::Spell, providing a set of words (as keys in the hash %Pod::Spell::Wordlist) that are English jargon words that come up in Perl documentation, but which are not to be found in general English lexicons. (For example: autovivify, backreference, chroot, stringify, wantarray.) You can also use this wordlist with your word processor by just pasting "Pod/Wordlist.pm"'s content into your wordprocessor, deleting the leading Perl code so that only the wordlist remains, and then spellchecking this resulting list and adding every word in it to your private lexicon. CONTRIBUTING
You are welcome to send me your wordlists too, for possible incorporation into this wordlist. I can take them only in ASCII. Note that the scope of this file is only English, specifically American English. (But you may find in useful to incorporate into your own lexicons, even if they are for other dialects/languages.) COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
Copyright (c) 2001 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of mer- chantability or fitness for a particular purpose. AUTHOR
Sean M. Burke, sburke@cpan.org [NB: This wordlist includes much of a wordlist that Mark-Jason Dominus gave me.] perl v5.8.8 2001-10-27 Wordlist(3pm)
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