Question

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 jQuery’s replace() like PHP’s preg_replace(). I just don’t know what regular expression to use.

Answer 1

Something like this :

<script type="text/javascript">
  var str = "Some text here ...";
  var pattern = /\p{P}/u;
  document.write(str.replace(pattern,''));
</script>

Edit :

It seems that Javascript is not PECL compatible, so the p{P} will not work.