Replace special characters that appear before and after a word in a string

Question

I need some help with regex that involves international characters. I have a string as followed

var text = "'#'Hello' Mo'nique! ''Привет марина!@¿";

I want special characters to be removed before and after a word but not those special characters in between like this

Hello Mo'nique Привет марина

I have tried

var result = text.replace(/[`~¡!@#$%^&*()_|+\-=¿?;:'",.<>\{\}\[\]\\\/]/g,'');

but that will remove all the special characters and return

Hello Monique Привет марина

Answer 1

Use negative look-ahead assertion with word boundaries to avoid symbols in between two words.

 var text = "'#'Hello' Mo'nique! ''Привет марина!@¿"; var result = text.replace(/(?!\\b.\\b)[`~¡!@#$%^&*()_|+\\-=¿?;:'",.<>\\{\\}\\[\\]\\\\\\/]/g,''); console.log(result); 

Regex explanation here

Answer 2

使用锚点匹配字符串的开头和结尾

^[`~¡!@#$%^&*()_|+\-=¿?;:'",.<>\{\}\[\]\\\/]+|[`~¡!@#$%^&*()_|+\-=¿?;:'",.<>\{\}\[\]\\\/]+$