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regex to ignore special characters

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Say, I have a text stored as:

var val1 = 'l-oreal';

I want to match val1 such that, it reads val1 and ignores hyphen (dash) in it. I want a regex that ignores special characters in a text. Is that possible?

I don't want to remove special character from the text. I want to ignore it.

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answered 6 Years ago kurtisl · Accepted Answer

You can match against the regex /[a-z]+/gi and then join by a space or any other character:

var testString = any string l-orem;

var matcher = /[a-z]+/gi;

var matches = testString.match(matcher);

var result = matches.join('');

console.log(result);

This, of course, doesn't change your original string, and can be simply customized to your own needs.