Regex to remove apostrophe

Question

I have input text that contains a ' like in this text "Frank's Reel Movie Reviews"

how do I get rid of the '

I have tried

.replace (/\'/ig, '');
.replace ('\'', '');

But it seem like the ' does now want to be deleted...

I am thinking that the ' maybe encoded utf-8 or something

Any ideas

Answer 1

Assuming you're working with Java, have you tried .replaceAll("'", "")? Works for me.

Answer 2

If you just want to have letters and spaces in your result, you could always match any character that isn't one of those, such as...

.replace (/[^a-zA-Z ]+/ig, '');

You could of course also add any other characters you desired to permit to the regex.

Answer 3

The regex [^\w ] will match anything that is not alphanumeric or space.

You could use this to ensure all apostrophes/quotes/etc get removed, even if done with Unicode - though there is not enough information in the question to know if this is acceptable.

Answer 4

The ' should not need to be escaped. Try leaving it naked, without the backslash.

Answer 5

Apostrophe is not a meta character.you should not escape it.