Remove Unicode characters in a String

Question

How do I remove all special characters which don't fall under ASCII category in VBA?

These are some of the symbols which appear in my string.

Œ œ Š š Ÿ ƒ

There are many more such characters.

These don't belong to ASCII category as you can see here http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

I tried something like this

strName = Replace(strName, ChrW(376), " ")

Answer 1

Would a RegEx solution be of interest to you?

There are plenty of examples for different languages on this site - here's a C# one: How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#).

Try this for VBA:

Private Function GetStrippedText(txt As String) As String
    Dim regEx As Object

    Set regEx = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
    regEx.Pattern = "[^\u0000-\u007F]"
    GetStrippedText = regEx.Replace(txt, "")

End Function