The following example will give the you the notes to replace the special characters in a string.
Place the following coed with in the script tags.
var temp1;
var temp = new String('Thi\'s is a te!!!!s$t st>ri9ng... S"o??? What#...');
document.write(temp + '
');
temp = temp.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9]+/g,'-');
document.write(temp + '
');
temp1=temp.replace(/\s/g,'-');
document.write(temp1 + '
');
Place the following coed with in the script tags.
var temp1;
var temp = new String('Thi\'s is a te!!!!s$t st>ri9ng... S"o??? What#...');
document.write(temp + '
');
temp = temp.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9]+/g,'-');
document.write(temp + '
');
temp1=temp.replace(/\s/g,'-');
document.write(temp1 + '
');
1 comment:
Thanks Ravi. This was a timely tidbit I really needed but wasn't able to find. Sure beats my other approach of str.getCharAt() and evaluating if it was in the right ascii range.
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