Remove non ASCII characters in coldfusion

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The following code will remove the non ascii or illegal characters from a string.

<cfset str=" Please enter string ">
<cfset a=reReplace(str, "[^\x20-\x7E]", "", "ALL")>
<cfoutput>#a#</cfoutput>

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  1. OriginalTeaPartyMarch 14, 2015 at 8:25 AM

    That is a very helpful little piece of code. Thanks very much.

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  2. AdrianJuly 12, 2016 at 3:23 PM

    Thank you! Very precious code!

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  3. UnknownNovember 11, 2018 at 1:43 AM

    This is exactly what I needed to fix a the output of a utf-8 XML file corrupted with Non ascii charaters. Thanks

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