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Replace all unwanted characters with a regular expression - how?

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:10 PMBlackCatBone

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Greetings,

I need to replace all characters in a string that are not numeric or alpha. I've got a test string that is "Nissay Dowa General-Happy". I need to change the string so that it becomes "NissayDowaGeneralHappy". The JavaScript that I have created removes only the first space, resulting in "NissayDowa General-Happy". The regular expression I am using is shown below. Can someone tell me how to do it the right way, removing all spaces and the dash character?

mystring = "Nissay Dowa General-Happy";

regexp = /[^A-Za-z0-9]/;

newstring = mystring.replace(regexp, "");

alert(newstring);

Gracias!
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:31 AMrtizan[0]

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Hi,

regexp = /[^A-Za-z0-9]/g;

should do it.

Good luck,

John
- Marked As Answer byBlackCatBone Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:07 PM
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:23 PMToronto Dan

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You may want to try \D \W (not digit, not character), include \S if you want "not white space"
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