Question

I am using the following code to take out anything other than alphabetical characters, numbers, question mark, exclamation point, periods, parenthesis, commas & hyphen:

MsgBox(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace("hello to you's! My # is [phone]. @$%^*<>{}[]\|/?,+-=:;`~", "[^A-Za-z0-9]", ""))

I come up with this: hellotoyousMy#is4425235584

It should read like so: hello to yous! My # is [phone].?,

Answer 1

Simply add all characters to your negated character class (take note of the space character!):

MsgBox(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace("hello to you's! My # is [phone]. @$%^*<>{}[]\|/?,+-=:;`~", "[^A-Za-z0-9 ?!.(),#-]+", ""))

(I also added a repeating + to your regex, so it can replace consecutive disallowed characters in one go)