Question

I have a string in javascript with some special characters inside.

var string = xxxx † yyyy § zzzz 

And I would like to remove those special characters and get only :

string = xxxx yyyy zzzz

I have tryed with this regex:

&#?[a-z0-9]+;

Like that:

string = string.replace(/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/g, "");

But the special characters are not matched with this regex.

Do you please have an idea how can I do it ?

The regex works well, see the example: http://regexr.com?31rrj

Answer 1

It’s working fine for me.
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/JwrZ6/

It’s probably your syntax, strings have to be defined with ” around them.

var string = "xxxx † yyyy § zzzz";

NOT

var string = xxxx † yyyy § zzzz;