Question

What is the necessary regular expression to match the € special character from the following html string?

€20.000.000,00

Ultimately, I want to strip the € symbol from the number. Currently, my code looks like this:

num = $("#number").html();
num.replace('€','');

$("number").html(num)

but of course I need to replace '€' with the correct regex.

Answer 1

It appears that by the time you are manipulating the text with jQuery, the HTML abbreviation € has been replaced by its actual unicode value — the true single character €. A regular expression which refers to the unicode character value should do the trick for you.

var x = $('#number').html();
x = x.replace(/\u20ac/, '');
$('#number').html(x);