Removing special characters Dynamically

[dpi]

Hi All ,

can you please help me on the below :

As a past of integration , i need to remove special symbols DYNAMICALLY (Chinese/some strange symbols) in the description (XML not accepting these symbols) . i tried like below but not getting how to push the unwanted value in to another Array. below is the onchange client script on a filed , can some one please help me   in achieving this . Thank you

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {

    if (isLoading || newValue == '') {

          return;

    }

*****

    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

  if ( newValue == 'XXXX' || 'YYYY' || 'ZZZZ')

  {

  alert("hello");

  var val = [];

  val = g_form.getValue('description');  

  alert(val);

  var achar =[];

        achar = 'abcdefghijklmnop'; //need to add 26 alphabets here

  var k=0;

  var result;

  var i;

  var array = [];

  var answer =[];

  var array1 = val.toLowerCase().split('');  

              for ( i=0; i <=val.length; i++){  

  {

  //alert("first forloop");

  for (var j=0; j <=achar.length; j++)

  {

  if(val[i] != achar[j]) // up to this point processor works tried with some alerts , here not working

  {

  array.push(val[i]);

  k++;

  }

          }

                      }

                                      }

                                                }

                                                          }

[Abhinay Erra · Accepted solution]

Here is how you can remove the special characters

var new_desc=g_form.getValue('description').toString().replace(/[^a-zA-Z ]/g, "");

[Rakesh Mamidi]

Include alphanumeric and only replace special characters.


var new_desc=g_form.getValue('description').toString().replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '');

[dpi]

Hi Abinay/Rakesh ,

Thanks for your prompt response, the proposed solution is working now . Thanks again