i am trying to verify strings to make valid urls our of them
i need to only keep A-Z 0-9 and remove other characters from string using javascript or jquery
for example :
Belle’s Restaurant
i need to convert it to :
Belle-s-Restaurant
so characters ’s removed and only A-Z a-z 0-9 are kept
thanks
By adding our .cleanup() method to the String object itself, you can then cleanup any string in Javascript simply by calling a local method, like this:
# Attaching our method to the String Object
String.prototype.cleanup = function() {
return this.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/g, -);
}
# Using our new .cleanup() method
var clean = Hello World.cleanup(); // hello-world
Because there is a plus sign at the end of the regular expression it matches one or more characters. Thus, the output will always have one '-' for each series of one or more non-alphanumeric characters:
# An example to demonstrate the effect of the plus sign in the regular expression above
var foo = Hello World . . . .cleanup(); // -hello-world-
Without the plus sign the result would be --hello-world-------------- for the last example.
