title: Replacing special characters in a string using regular expression
body: <p>Good morning,</p>
  <p>I want to use RegEx.Replace to replace special characters in a string. I want to make sure I only have alphabetic characters in my string. All I want to do is to remove the non-alphabetic characters.
  Some code:</p>
  <pre><code>    Dim myString as String = &quot;Me &amp; my *buddy* love$ fishing!!!&quot;
  myString = RegEx.Replace(myString, &quot;\[!@#$%^&amp;*()+]&quot;, &quot;&quot;)
  </code></pre>
  <p>For some reason this does not work so I must be doing something wrong. Please help!</p>