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Remove All Special Characters from a String

by Alex Golubov tags: strings, formatting, regex

Summary

Create a function that takes a string, removes all "special" characters (e.g. !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, \, *, (, )) and returns the new string. The only non-alphanumeric characters allowed are dashes -, underscores _ and spaces. Examples removeSpecialCharacters("The quick brown fox!") ➞ "The quick brown fox" removeSpecialCharacters("%fd76$fd(-)6GvKlO.") ➞ "fd76fd

Instructions

Create a function that takes a string, removes all "special" characters (e.g. !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, \, *, (, )) and returns the new string. The only non-alphanumeric characters allowed are dashes -, underscores _ and spaces.

Examples

removeSpecialCharacters("The quick brown fox!") ➞ "The quick brown fox"

removeSpecialCharacters("%fd76$fd(-)6GvKlO.") ➞ "fd76fd-6GvKlO"

removeSpecialCharacters("D0n$c sed 0di0 du1") ➞ "D0nc sed 0di0 du1"

Notes

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