How to remove special character (:\) from string

Vinayak Nikam · ‎07-21-2020

Hi All,

Need a script to remove special character specially ":\" from string. Due to this special characters my API is not working.

I have tried below scripts but not working please suggest.

var str = "F:\";
var test = str.replace(/[^\d\w]/gi, '');
gs.print("Str: " + str + "\ntest: " + test);

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var str = "F:\";
var test = str.replace(/[&\/\\#,+()$~%.'":*?<>{}]/g, '');
gs.print("Str: " + str + "\ntest: " + test);

Thanks in Advance..

Vinayak

Vinayak Nikam · ‎07-21-2020

for one back slash it is not working

Rishabh Jha · ‎07-21-2020

Hi @Vinayak Nikam,

How are you getting that string with one back-slash? A string with one back-slash can't be a valid string literal, so all functions that you'd try to apply would fail on it. You'd need to first replace/escape it properly at the source, where you're assigning the value to the string. And after that, you can use the code that I've mentioned above to replace ":\\" with "".

Thanks & Regards,

Rishabh Jha

Aavenir (https://www.aavenir.com/)

Gaurav Shirsat · ‎07-21-2020

Hi Vinay

below is the Raw Java Script code to remove the Character.This might help you.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>

How to remove a character from

string using Javascript?

</title>

</head>

<body>

GeeksforGeeks

</h1>

<b>

How to remove a character from

a string using Javascript?

</b>

<p>Original string is GeeksforGeeks</p>

<p>

New String is:

</p>

Remove Character

</button>

function removeCharacter() {

originalString = 'GeeksForGeeks';

newString = originalString.replace('G', '');//add your data here

document.querySelector('.output').textContent

= newString;

}

</script>

</body>

</html>

Please Mark Correct and Helpful

Thanks and Regards

Gaurav Shirsat