How to select whole text without special characters in single match?

Question

I have some text, I need to select only alphanumeric characters only in single match.

I have tried this in regex

[^\W]+

Pattern : [^\W]+

Input:  This is "My Page"

Output I Need: This is My Page

Join the result with a single space? This will avoid the capture of multiple space — xdtTransform, May 06 '19 at 07:51
The only way is to remove the non-alphanumeric characters. Or concatenate the sub-matches. — montonero, May 06 '19 at 07:51
BTW, concatenating matches is preferable if spaces should not be preserved and you want to get alphanumeric substrings separated with a single space: it is much cleaner with a mere `\w+` regex. See [this thread on how to get multiple matches](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4892452). — Wiktor Stribiżew, May 06 '19 at 08:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '19 at 07:46

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Remove everything that is not word character or space using this regex,

[^\w ]+

with empty space.

answered May 06 '19 at 07:46

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