# Sanitizing user comment entries text field help

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**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sanitizing-user-comment-entries-text-field-help/57817 "2022-03-30T14:23:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sanitizing-user-comment-entries-text-field-help/57817/9 "2022-03-30T14:58:31Z")

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If you can standardize on a single replace character, the regex becomes simpler.

```python
import re

Comments = self.parent.parent.getChild("topspacer flex_5").getChild("TextField_0").props.text

pattern = re.compile('[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]')

Comments = pattern.sub('', Comments)

```

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