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JavaScript Regular Expression Whitelist for String
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| // in the regex, the carrot(^) negates the match, so if the stringToReplace contains something that is not a-z or 0-9 it will be replaced | |
| // In this case the desired string will only be alpha numeric characters, stripping out spaces and symbols | |
| // Help from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4374822/javascript-regexp-remove-all-special-characters | |
| var desired = stringToReplace.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/gi, '') |