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I have series of data in my excel file. But there are some unsupported characters present in the file like 1 0, 0h0,0.>68,1L1 etc. I want to detect all of these using regular expression or any method and replace it by zero. My main moto is detect anything which is not a number and replace it by zero.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 31 Jan 2012
L(L < '0' | L > '9') = '0';
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 6 Feb 2012
L is the character string.
The code detects anything that is not a number and replaces it with 0.
The digits are all together as characters, in the order '0' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9' . So anything less than '0' is not a digit and anything greater than '9' is not a digit.

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