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Replaces or drops invalid characters from names according to rules for naming feature classes
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fix-invalid-characters.py
def fix_invalid_characters(self, string):
"""
Drops invalid characters from names according to rules for naming feature classes, notably must
start with a letter and remaining characters must be numbers, letters or underscores.
"""
# drop invalid characters at beginning of string
string = re.sub(r'^[^a-zA-Z]+', '', string)
# find any invalid characters in remainder of string and replace with underscores
return re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9A-Z_]', '_', string)
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