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rated 0 times [ 47] [ 7] / answers: 1 / hits: 31343 / 12 Years ago, fri, october 5, 2012, 12:00:00

Can someone provide a regular expression to search and replace illegal characters found

Example, removing �

I am not sure how many types of 'illegal' characters exist but I think this will be a good start.

Many thanks

edit - I have no control over the data, we're trying to create a catch for the potentially bad data we're receiving.

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answered 12 Years ago jeanettee · Accepted Answer

Invalid characters get converted to 0xFFFD on parsing, so any invalid character codes would get replaced with:

myString = myString.replace(/uFFFD/g, '')

You can get all types of invalid sorts of chars here