Javascript regular expression for punctuation (international)?

Question

I need a regular expression to match against all punctuation marks, such as the standard [,!@#$%^&*()], but including international marks like the upside-down Spanish qu

Answer 1

For Python this regex to remove from the start and end any type of punctuation marks:

import re
def cleanspecialcharacters(str):   
    regex = re.compile((
    '^[/\"_\(\)&*\$￥\^\+=`~<>\{\}\[\]\|\-!#%\,\:;@¡§«¶·»¿;·՚-՟։֊؉،॥॰෴๏๚๛༄-༒༔༺-༽྅჻፠-፨᐀᙭᙮។-៖៘-៚‧‰-⁃⁅-⁑⁓-⁞⁽⁾₍₎、〃〈-【】〔-〟〰〽゠・﴾﴿︐-︙︰-﹒﹔-﹡﹣﹨﹪﹫！-＃％-＊，-／：；？＠［-］＿｛｝｟-･〔〕《》]*|'
    '([/\"_\(\)&*\$￥\^\+=`~<>\{\}\[\]\|\-!#%\,\:;@¡§«¶·»¿;·՚-՟։֊؉،॥॰෴๏๚๛༄-༒༔༺-༽྅჻፠-፨᐀᙭᙮។-៖៘-៚‧‰-⁃⁅-⁑⁓-⁞⁽⁾₍₎、〃〈-【】〔-〟〰〽゠・﴾﴿︐-︙︰-﹒﹔-﹡﹣﹨﹪﹫！-＃％-＊，-／：；？＠［-］＿｛｝｟-･〔〕《》])*$'))
    str = regex.sub('', str)
    return str