sample <- c("abc def ghi WQE34324Wweasfsdfs23234", "abcd efgh WQWEQtWe_232")
gsub("\\b(?=\\w*[a-z])(?=\\w*[A-Z])(?=\\w*\\d)\\w{8,}", "", sample, perl=TRUE) ## replace_alnum
gsub("(?<!\\S)(?=\\S*[a-z])(?=\\S*[A-Z])(?=\\S*[0-9])(?=\\S*[_-])[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}", "", sample, perl=TRUE) ## replace_alnumsym