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I have the following line of code to remove illegal characters from a file name:

str= str.replace(/([^a-z0-9]+)/gi, '-');

That works fine but it also removes the spaces, how can I only remove the illegal characters but leave the spaces?

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answered 7 Years ago cristinah · Accepted Answer

Illegal characters are listed here. To replace them use this regex /[/\?%*:|<>]/g like this:

var filename = f?:i/le>  n%a|m\e.ext;



filename = filename.replace(/[/\?%*:|<>]/g, '-');



console.log(filename);