I want to replace all symbols that aren’t letters by -, but my code doesn’t work :
$reg = '/[^a-zA-Z]+/g';
$txt = $txt.replace($reg, '-');
What am I doing wrong?
I want to replace all symbols that aren’t letters by – , but my
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I want to replace all symbols that aren’t letters by -, but my code doesn’t work :
$reg = '/[^a-zA-Z]+/g';
$txt = $txt.replace($reg, '-');
What am I doing wrong?
You need to un-quote the regex string so it’s treated as a regular expression literal, so you get this:
Regular expressions in JavaScript don’t need to be quoted as strings unless using the
new Regexp()notation; in the above example, it is now a regular expression literal, which isn’t treated as a string but a piece of regex to be used in.replace().