Need a function to strip off a set of illegal character in javascript: |&;$%@"<>()+,
This is a classic problem to be solved with regexes, which means now I have 2 problems.
This is what I've got so far:
var cleanString = dirtyString.replace(/\|&;\$%@"<>\(\)\+,/g, "");
I am escaping the regex special chars with a backslash but I am having a hard time trying to understand what's going on.
If I try with single literals in isolation most of them seem to work, but once I put them together in the same regex depending on the order the replace is broken.
i.e. this won't work --> dirtyString.replace(/\|<>/g, ""):
Help appreciated!