Javascript string replace with regex to strip off illegal characters

Question

Need a function to strip off a set of illegal character in javascript: |&;$%@\"<>()+,

This is a classic problem to be solved with regexes, whi

Answer 1

What you need are character classes. In that, you've only to worry about the ], \ and - characters (and ^ if you're placing it straight after the beginning of the character class "[" ).

Syntax: [characters] where characters is a list with characters.

Example:

var cleanString = dirtyString.replace(/[|&;$%@"<>()+,]/g, "");