jQuery remove special characters from string and more

Question

I have a string like this:

var str = \"I\'m a very^ we!rd* Str!ng.\";

What I would like to do is removing all special characters from the a

Answer 1

replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/gi, '') will filter the string down to just alphanumeric values and replace(/[_\s]/g, '-') will replace underscores and spaces with hyphens:

str.replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/gi, '').replace(/[_\s]/g, '-')

Source for Regex: RegEx for Javascript to allow only alphanumeric

Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/vNfrk/