delphi - strip out all non standard text characers from string

Question

I need to strip out all non standard text characers from a string. I need remove all non ascii and control characters (except line feeds/carriage returns).

Answer 1

And here's a variant of Cosmin's that only walks the string once, but uses an efficient allocation pattern:

function StrippedOfNonAscii(const s: string): string;
var
  i, Count: Integer;
begin
  SetLength(Result, Length(s));
  Count := 0;
  for i := 1 to Length(s) do begin
    if ((s[i] >= #32) and (s[i] <= #127)) or (s[i] in [#10, #13]) then begin
      inc(Count);
      Result[Count] := s[i];
    end;
  end;
  SetLength(Result, Count);
end;

Answer 2

Something like this should do:

// For those who need a disclaimer: 
// This code is meant as a sample to show you how the basic check for non-ASCII characters goes
// It will give low performance with long strings that are called often.
// Use a TStringBuilder, or SetLength & Integer loop index to optimize.
// If you need really optimized code, pass this on to the FastCode people.
function StripNonAsciiExceptCRLF(const Value: AnsiString): AnsiString;
var
  AnsiCh: AnsiChar;
begin
  for AnsiCh in Value do
    if (AnsiCh >= #32) and (AnsiCh <= #127) and (AnsiCh <> #13) and (AnsiCh <> #10) then
      Result := Result + AnsiCh;
end;

For UnicodeString you can do something similar.