Given a string consisting of alphabets and others characters, remove all the characters other than alphabets and print the string so formed.
Examples:
Input : $Gee*k;s..fo, r’Ge^eks?
Output : neveropenInput : P&ra+$BHa;;t*ku, ma$r@@s#in}gh
Output : PraBHatkumarsingh
To remove all the characters other than alphabets(a-z) && (A-Z), we just compare the character with the ASCII value, and for the character whose value does not lie in the range of alphabets, we remove those characters using string erase function.
Implementation:
C++
// CPP program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets#include <bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;// function to remove characters and// print new stringvoid removeSpecialCharacter(string s){ for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++) { // Finding the character whose // ASCII value fall under this // range if (s[i] < 'A' || s[i] > 'Z' && s[i] < 'a' || s[i] > 'z') { // erase function to erase // the character s.erase(i, 1); i--; } } cout << s;}// driver codeint main(){ string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); return 0;} |
Java
// Java program to remove all the characters// other than alphabetsclass GFG { // function to remove characters and // print new string static void removeSpecialCharacter(String s) { for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { // Finding the character whose // ASCII value fall under this // range if (s.charAt(i) < 'A' || s.charAt(i) > 'Z' && s.charAt(i) < 'a' || s.charAt(i) > 'z') { // erase function to erase // the character s = s.substring(0, i) + s.substring(i + 1); i--; } } System.out.print(s); } // Driver code public static void main(String[] args) { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); } } // This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji |
Python3
# Python3 program to remove all the# characters other than alphabets# function to remove characters and# print new stringdef removeSpecialCharacter(s): i = 0 while i < len(s): # Finding the character whose # ASCII value fall under this # range if (ord(s[i]) < ord('A') or ord(s[i]) > ord('Z') and ord(s[i]) < ord('a') or ord(s[i]) > ord('z')): # erase function to erase # the character del s[i] i -= 1 i += 1 print("".join(s))# Driver Codeif __name__ == '__main__': s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?" s = [i for i in s] removeSpecialCharacter(s)# This code is contributed by Mohit Kumar |
C#
// C# program to remove all the characters// other than alphabetsusing System;class GFG { // function to remove characters and // print new string static void removeSpecialCharacter(string s) { for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) { // Finding the character whose // ASCII value fall under this // range if (s[i] < 'A' || s[i] > 'Z' && s[i] < 'a' || s[i] > 'z') { // erase function to erase // the character s = s.Remove(i,1); i--; } } Console.Write(s); } // Driver code public static void Main() { string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); } }// This code is contributed by Sam007. |
Javascript
<script>// Javascript program to remove all the characters// other than alphabets // function to remove characters and // print new string function removeSpecialCharacter(s) { for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { // Finding the character whose // ASCII value fall under this // range if (s[i] < 'A' || s[i] > 'Z' && s[i] < 'a' || s[i] > 'z') { // erase function to erase // the character s = s.substring(0, i) + s.substring(i + 1); i--; } } document.write(s); } // Driver code let s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); // This code is contributed by unknown2108</script> |
Output
neveropen
Time complexity: O(N2) as erase() may take O(n) in the worst case. We can optimize the solution by keeping track of two indexes.
Auxiliary Space: O(1)
Implementation:
C++
// CPP program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets#include <bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;// function to remove characters and// print new stringvoid removeSpecialCharacter(string s){ int j = 0; for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++) { // Store only valid characters if ((s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z') || (s[i] >='a' && s[i] <= 'z')) { s[j] = s[i]; j++; } } cout << s.substr(0, j);}// driver codeint main(){ string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); return 0;} |
Java
// Java program to remove all the // characters other than alphabetsclass GFG {// function to remove characters and // print new string static void removeSpecialCharacter(String str) { char[] s = str.toCharArray(); int j = 0; for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { // Store only valid characters if ((s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z') || (s[i] >= 'a' && s[i] <= 'z')) { s[j] = s[i]; j++; } } System.out.println(String.valueOf(s).substring(0, j)); }// driver code public static void main(String[] args) { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} // This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar |
Python3
# Python program to remove all the # characters other than alphabets# Function to remove special characters # and store it in another variabledef removeSpecialCharacter(s): t = "" for i in s: # Store only valid characters if (i >= 'A' and i <= 'Z') or (i >= 'a' and i <= 'z'): t += i print(t)# Driver codes = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"removeSpecialCharacter(s)# This code is contributed by code_freak |
C#
// C# program to remove all the // characters other than alphabetsusing System;public class GFG { // function to remove characters and // print new string static void removeSpecialCharacter(String str) { char[] s = str.ToCharArray(); int j = 0; for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) { // Store only valid characters if ((s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z') || (s[i] >= 'a' && s[i] <= 'z')) { s[j] = s[i]; j++; } } Console.WriteLine(String.Join("",s).Substring(0, j)); } // driver code public static void Main() { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} //This code is contributed by PrinciRaj1992 |
Javascript
<script>// JavaScript program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets// function to remove characters and// print new stringfunction removeSpecialCharacter(str){ let s = str.split(""); let j = 0; for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { // Store only valid characters if ((s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z') || (s[i] >= 'a' && s[i] <= 'z')) { s[j] = s[i]; j++; } } document.write((s).join("").substring(0, j));}// driver codelet s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?";removeSpecialCharacter(s);// This code is contributed by rag2127</script> |
Output
neveropen
Time Complexity: O(n)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)
Approach : Using isalpha() method:
Iterate over the characters of the string and if the character is an alphabet then add the character to the new string. Finally, the new string contains only the alphabets of the given string.
Implementation:
C++
// CPP program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets#include <bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;// function to remove characters and// print new stringvoid removeSpecialCharacter(string s){ // Initialize an empty string string ans = ""; for (auto ch : s) { // if the current character // is an alphabet if (isalpha(ch)) ans += ch; } cout << ans;}// driver codeint main(){ string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); return 0;}// this code is contributed by Rajdeep Mallick(rajdeep999) |
Java
public class Main { // function to remove characters and print new string static void removeSpecialCharacter(String s) { // Initialize an empty string String ans = ""; for (char ch : s.toCharArray()) { // if the current character is an alphabet if (Character.isLetter(ch)) ans += ch; } System.out.println(ans); } // driver code public static void main(String[] args) { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} |
Python3
# Python program to remove all the# characters other than alphabets# Function to remove special characters# and store it in another variabledef removeSpecialCharacter(s): t = "" for i in s: if(i.isalpha()): t+=i print(t)s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"removeSpecialCharacter(s) |
C#
using System;public class Program { public static void Main() { string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; RemoveSpecialCharacter(s); } // function to remove characters and print new string public static void RemoveSpecialCharacter(string s) { // Initialize an empty string string ans = ""; foreach(char ch in s) { // if the current character is an alphabet if (Char.IsLetter(ch)) ans += ch; } Console.WriteLine(ans); }}// This code is contributed by sarojmcy2e |
Javascript
// function to remove characters and print new stringfunction removeSpecialCharacter(s) { // Initialize an empty string let ans = ""; for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { // if the current character is an alphabet if (/[a-zA-Z]/.test(s[i])) { ans += s[i]; } } console.log(ans);}// driver codelet s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?";removeSpecialCharacter(s);// This code is contributed by princekumaras |
Output
neveropen
Time Complexity: O(n)
Auxiliary Space: O(n)
Approach: Without built-in methods.
Initialize an empty string, string with lowercase alphabets(la) and uppercase alphabets(ua). Iterate a for loop on string, if the character is in la or ua using in and not in operators concatenate them to an empty string. Display the string after the end of the loop.
Implementation:
C++
// C++ program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets#include<bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;string removeSpecialCharacter(string s) { string t = ""; string la = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; string ua = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { if(la.find(s[i]) != string::npos || ua.find(s[i]) != string::npos) { t += s[i]; } } cout << t << endl; return t;}int main() { string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); return 0;}// This code is contributed by shivamsharma215 |
Java
// Java program to remove all the// characters other than alphabetsimport java.util.*;class Gfg { static String removeSpecialCharacter(String s) { // empty string to store the result String t = ""; String la = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; String ua = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { // if it is a letter, add it to the result string if (la.contains(String.valueOf(s.charAt(i))) || ua.contains( String.valueOf(s.charAt(i)))) { t += s.charAt(i); } } System.out.println(t); return t; } // Driver Code public static void main(String[] args) { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} |
Python3
# Python program to remove all the# characters other than alphabets# Function to remove special characters# and store it in another variabledef removeSpecialCharacter(s): t = "" la="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" ua="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" for i in s: if(i in la or i in ua): t+=i print(t)s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"removeSpecialCharacter(s) |
C#
// C# program to remove all the// characters other than alphabetsusing System;class Gfg{ static string removeSpecialCharacter(string s) { string t = ""; string la = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; string ua = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) if(la.Contains(s[i]) || ua.Contains(s[i])) t += s[i]; Console.WriteLine(t); return t; } public static void Main() { string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} |
Javascript
// JS program to remove all the// characters other than alphabetsfunction removeSpecialCharacter( s) { let t = ""; let la = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; let ua = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) { if(la.includes(s[i]) || ua.includes(s[i])) { t += s[i]; } } console.log(t); return t;}let s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?";removeSpecialCharacter(s);// this code is contributed by poojaagarwal2. |
Output
neveropen
Time complexity: O(n), where n is the length of the input string s. This is because in the worst case, the loop in the removeSpecialCharacter function will have to iterate through all the characters in the string.
Auxiliary Space: O(n), where n is the length of the final string without special characters. This is because the function creates a new string t to store only the alphabetic characters. The size of the string t will be at most equal to the size of the original string s.
Approach: Using ord() function.The ASCII value of the lowercase alphabet is from 97 to 122. And, the ASCII value of the uppercase alphabet is from 65 to 90.
C++
#include <bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;// Function to remove special characters// and store it in another variablevoid removeSpecialCharacter(string s){ string t = ""; for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { if ((s[i] >= 'a' && s[i] <= 'z') || (s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z')) { t += s[i]; } } cout << t << endl;}int main(){ string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); return 0;} |
Java
import java.util.*;class GFG { // Function to remove special characters // and store it in another variable static void removeSpecialCharacter(String s) { String t = ""; for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { if ((s.charAt(i) >= 'a' && s.charAt(i) <= 'z') || (s.charAt(i) >= 'A' && s.charAt(i) <= 'Z')) { t += s.charAt(i); } } System.out.println(t); } public static void main(String[] args) { String s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; removeSpecialCharacter(s); }} |
Python3
# Python program to remove all the# characters other than alphabets# Function to remove special characters# and store it in another variabledef removeSpecialCharacter(s): t = "" for i in s: if(ord(i) in range(97,123) or ord(i) in range(65,91)): t+=i print(t)s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"removeSpecialCharacter(s) |
C#
using System;class GFG { // Function to remove special characters // and store it in another variable static void RemoveSpecialCharacter(string s) { string t = ""; for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) { // Check if the character is an alphabet // (lowercase or uppercase) if ((s[i] >= 'a' && s[i] <= 'z') || (s[i] >= 'A' && s[i] <= 'Z')) { t += s[i]; } } Console.WriteLine(t); } static void Main(string[] args) { string s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?"; RemoveSpecialCharacter(s); }} |
Javascript
// JavaScript program to remove all the// characters other than alphabets// Function to remove special characters// and store it in another variablefunction removeSpecialCharacter(s){ let t = "" for (let i=0; i<s.length; i++) if((s[i]>='a' && s[i]<='z') || (s[i]>='A' && s[i]<='Z')) t+=s[i]; console.log(t);}let s = "$Gee*k;s..fo, r'Ge^eks?";removeSpecialCharacter(s); |
Output
neveropen
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