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

Since I can't comment on Jasper's answer, I'd like to point out a small bug in his solution:

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

The problem is that first code removes all the hyphens and then tries to replace them :) You should reverse the replace calls and also add hyphen to second replace regex. Like this:

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