Answers for "remove symbol from string"

how to remove all special characters from a string in java

String str= "This#string%contains^special*characters&.";   
str = str.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", " ");  
System.out.println(str);  

how to remove letters from string

public extractLetters(String str){
	String result="";
	for(int i= 0; i< str.length; i++){
	    if(Character.isLetter(str.charAt(i))){
	    result+=str.charAt(i);
	  	}
	}