Replace all non Alpha Numeric characters, New Lines, and multiple White Space with one Space

Question

I\'m looking for a neat RegEx solution to replace

• All non Alpha-Numeric Characters
• All NewLines
• All multiple instances of white space

Answer 1

Be aware, that \W leaves the underscore. A short equivalent for [^a-zA-Z0-9] would be [\W_]

text.replace(/[\W_]+/g," ");

\W is the negation of shorthand \w for [A-Za-z0-9_] word characters (including the underscore)

Example at regex101.com