Question

I’m looking for a way to remove words or numbers containing these characters: * or ..

I tried to write my own regex but i couldn’t really figure it out. For example

The sh*t just hit the fan 102.7 and google.com

Should result in:

The just hit the fan and

Just a random sentence but it should remove the words sh*t, 102.7 and google.com.

It doesn’t matter if it’ll leave double spaces.

Thanks in advance and I appreciate your help!

Answer 1

result = subject.replace(/\S*[.*]\S*/g, "");

should do it.

Explanation:

\S*  # match any number of non-whitespace characters
[.*] # match either a dot or an asterisk
\S*  # match any number of non-whitespace characters