How to remove following symbol/special character in string using jquery ¶

Question

How to remove following symbol/special character in string using jquery

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I have problem during comparing two strings . Above mentioned symbol is append when I compute difference. I also test it in my local application please check link below.

http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/demos/demo_diff.html

Answer 1

var s = "This is a string that contains ¶, a special character.";
s = s.replace(/¶/g, "");

Yields:

"This is a string that contains , a special character."

This will remove all occurrences of the character. No jQuery necessary - just vanilla browser-provided JavaScript.

Some additional details are available at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace .

Answer 2

jQuery isn't needed for this, you can achieve it by using native javascripts replace function:

var myString = "ABC¶DEFG"
alert(myString.replace("¶", ""))

Example fiddle

Answer 3

javascript replace function should work. If it isn't finding the character then try using the unicode or ansi equivalent.

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ansi.html