Hi Folks.

I am not to fermilliar with Reg X and i am tring to remove all none Alpa/Numeric Chars while leaving white spaces.  In c#

Here is my code.

        string searchString = Regex.Replace(search.Text.Trim().ToLower(), @"[\W]", "");
            Response.Redirect(searchString.Replace(" ", "-") + "-search.htm");

I need to put the - Char where there is a space.  So ive looked around a bit and i am still stumped.  I get that [\s] is all white spaces, but i do not get how to make this an exception to the rule [\W].

I did try  string searchString = Regex.Replace(search.Text.Trim().ToLower(), @"[!\s]|[\W]", "");  This was ok but then !"$£ style Chars came through.

And also i tryed string searchString = Regex.Replace(search.Text.Trim().ToLower(), @"[\W]", "", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace) but this was wrong as well.

Help....

Thanks Panda.

PS.  What dose the  @ symbol mean at the start of the pattern,   lots of examples ommited this, can i?