Trying to decrypt a message

I have a text file that contains a hidden message with a bunch of random characters in between letters and # symbols that separate each word. Here is the first line of the text:

;,.T234h467e#i`12n390@%f&^%o1@45r1%^m]\a131@t2i*/-o+/1n#i*895n#t$5&&h1/!i@$$s#f18945@i2/le#i98s#c`$%o%^n77*f(=i(*d@!e1*/n--t+/*i1/2a@@l

I need to figure out how to write a single line for my toFind phrase that gathers only the letters and the # symbols. Here is what I have so far:

toFind = '[[a-zA-Z][#]]';
matches = regexp(line,toFind,'match');

This toFind statement finds all of the letters and #'s, but it also keeps a random ']' symbol in there. I'm not sure how to re-write the toFind statement to exclude the ']'.

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

tofind = '[a-zA-z#]'

Read the regexp doc and its examples to learn how ranges work.

You may want to add a quantifier to the end of your expression as well.

[Angie Lee]

Thank you!