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Regex: How to leave out webding font characters?

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If you want only ascii, use /[^ -~]+/ as regex. The problem is your [:punct:] statement. Perhaps javascript does not support [:punct:]?

ZyX 2010-05-05 23:01:48

Or perhaps the problem was that it is written as `[:punct]` rather than `[:punct:]`?

Senseful 2010-05-05 23:04:17

`[:punct:]` is an example of a POSIX character class, and no, JavaScript doesn't support them.

Alan Moore 2010-05-05 23:04:58

@eagle I tested with the correct spelling. And, as said @Alan Moore, I was right.

ZyX 2010-05-06 10:07:34

@ZyX - The one you suggested doesn't work either. I'm testing my regex at "http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_replace3". Do you think that might be the cause? I modified my webapp as well, but it takes a while to build and run so I'm testing it at the above URL. So... so far both [:punct] and [:punct:] are defunct for me! :)Any other suggestions?

DS 2010-05-06 15:29:45

So far my expression stands at this - accounts for a-z (both case), 0-9, spanish accented characters and some special characters. And that's all I need. I want the rest to fall off. But when I pass the characters from the original question post above, they still pass through. Somebody help!/[^a-zA-Z 0-9 áÁéÉíÍóÓúÚñÑ`~!@#$%^"':\/?.>,<]+/g

DS 2010-05-06 15:36:50

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