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I'm having trouble with my regex. I'm sure something is not escaping properly. function regex(str) { str = str.replace(/(~|`|!|@|#|$|%|^|&|*|\(|\)|{|}|\[|\]|;|:|\"|'|<|,|\.|>|\?|\...

I am wondering if it is possible to create a regular expression which will allow digits, letters and spaces but no punctuation. Whats happening is I have an online loan application and in the street ...

I'm making some code that scans an item for its price, and the price is located inside a class "cash". The text inside the cash class looks like this 1,000 I ...

How to find non letters from expression ? example string " friday is piątek, but in different language!" i did that but without efford : elem1 = element.replace(/\s/g, ''); elem2 = elem1.replace(/\-/...

How can I count the number of times a particular string occurs in another string. For example, this is what I am trying to do in Javascript: var temp = "This is a string."; alert(temp.count("is")); //...

Given a string like: "The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!" What kind of jQuery or JavaScript magic can be used to keep spaces to only one space max? Goal: "The dog has a long tail,...

I am trying to break the following sentence in words and wrap them in span. <p class="german_p big">Das ist ein schönes Armband</p> I followed this: How to get a word under cursor using ...

So, you can easily check if a string contains a particular substring using the .includes() method. I'm interested in finding if a string contains a word. For example, if I apply a search for "on" ...

I want to remove space before every punctuation in Javascript/jquery. For example Input string = " This 's a test string ." Output = "This's a test string."

I need to remove fractional addresses from a street address input line. I need to allow for people who enter strings like the following: 1600 1/2 Main St 1600 3/4 Main Street 1600.5 Main St 1600.75 ...

The users on my review type of platform highlight titles (of movies, books etc) in <em class="title"> tags. So for example, it could be: <em class="title">Pacific Rim&...

How to detect number, uppercase, lowercase data in string using JavaScript ? Why does this code tell me $, # and ! are upper/lower case ? How can I detect only number, uppercase, lowercase ? https:/...

i have two sentences and i would like to find all the words they share regardless of capitalization or punctuation. currently this is what I am doing: searchWords = sentence1.split(" "); var ...

I am trying to split a string into an array of single words in Javascript. First step was quite easy: words = text.split(/\b\s+(?!$)/); This solution works fine, except it doesn't use punctuation ...

With the answers in Javascript unicode string, chinese character but no punctuation and How can I strip all punctuation from a string in JavaScript using regex? I have gotten close to what I need: ...

I'm using the following line of PHP to remove punctuation from strings: $key = preg_replace("/\p{P}/u", "", $key); Does anyone know how to do the same thing in Javascript/jQuery? I know you can use ...

Following this question How can I strip all punctuation from a string in JavaScript using regex? I'm trying to remove all punctuation from a string besides the ' character to avoid messing with words ...

I am trying to solve a palindrome problem. The palindrome can contain letters and numbers, but everything else must be removed. My code below is not returning the correct result. function palindrome(...

I've been trying to redo a message filter for a little while now, and I'm stumped on something with it. I have a list of different words in different categories that the filter blocks, but there's ...

I want to be clear I'm not looking for solutions. I'm really trying to understand what is being done. With that said all pointers and recommendations are welcomed. I am woking through freecodecamp.com ...

Say I have var string1 = "Hello" and string2 = "Hello" How can I compare these two and ignore the capitals and the punctuation in javascript?

I'm looking for a way to remove these characters from a string in javascript (and spaces). ?[]/\=<>:;,'\"&$#*()|~`!{} I am unsure how to construct this: "mystring is - ?[] hello ".replace(...

I got a question in vb.net can I identify each of the character in string for an example i got a string of "Hello!. Good Afternoon!" from this string can i trim away the period symbol? Thank you

So here is my current js fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/sbyLb93n/6/ I have tried adding .replace(/\W*/mg, "") to wordsArr and valuesArr before I turn the string of text into an array of strings ...