Simple ascii replacement - Javascript

Question

I'm looking for a javascript function which takes a string parameter and checks for ascii characters lower than 32, replacing them with empty string -> "". I'm new to javascript so I was wondering whether anyone can point me towards the right direction ?

Thanks in advance for your time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94037/convert-character-to-ascii-code-in-javascript this may help — Ferhat, Nov 15 '12 at 13:27
What I meant was, I want to find and remove any characters within the string that has a lower ascii value than 32 — Pumpkin, Nov 15 '12 at 13:28

Sean Airey · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-15T14:53:01.253

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Try this:

var replaced = string.replaceAll("[^ -~]", "");

Using ^ negates the characters class, and since space is character 32 in the ASCII table and ~ is the last printable character, you're basically saying "everything that isn't a printable character".

To simply remove all characters from 0-31 use:

var replace = string.replaceAll("\x00-\x1F", "");

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answered Nov 15 '12 at 13:34

Sean Airey

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See my edit, I've included how to match specific character codes, with 1F being 31. – Sean Airey Nov 15 '12 at 14:54
This will remove french letter `à`. – Vitaly Zdanevich Nov 21 '17 at 12:16
@Vitaly Not at desk ATM, which code is à? You could just add "^à" or "^{insert character code here}" to the regular expression to get it to exclude those from the replacement :) – Sean Airey Nov 21 '17 at 12:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '12 at 13:29

If I understand your question correctly you are looking for a regex to use with .replace...

For replacing any printable ascii chars you can use this regex:

/[ -~]/

You will probably have to adjust the range. I recommend changing the tilder since it is the last printable char.

Sorry, I see what you mean! I think you cannot match unprintable chars unless use use their special symbol: i.e. \b \s \n etc.

lostsource · Answer 3 · 2012-11-15T13:49:57.200

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function keepCharsAbove(inStr, charCode) {
  var goodChars = [];
  for(var x = 0; x < inStr.length; x++) {
      if(inStr.charCodeAt(x) > charCode) {
          goodChars.push(inStr.charAt(x));
      }
  }

  return goodChars.join("");
}

Usage:

keepCharsAbove("foo \t bar",32); // returns 'foobar'

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answered Nov 15 '12 at 13:34

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This would probably be better by converting the input to an array of single character strings, filtering the array (`Array.filter`) and then joining back into a string. (A more functional approach.) – Richard Nov 15 '12 at 13:42

Simple ascii replacement - Javascript

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