# Remove empty characters

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/remove-empty-characters/317208>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 13, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/remove-empty-characters/317208 "2010-12-13T20:48:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![lope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@lope](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lope)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/remove-empty-characters/317208/1 "2010-12-13T20:48:56Z")

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I need a regexp to remove all all type of empty characters from a string and just leave numbers  
so for example:  
myString = " 1 ";  
to return “1”