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

You need to wrap them all in a character class. The current version means replace this sequence of characters with an empty string. When wrapped in square brackets it means replace any of these characters with an empty string.

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