Remove escape characters string using jQuery/JavaScript

Question

I want to remove the escape charecters from a string using jquery.

I know about the "escape()" in jquery but the issue is

For example I want to remove the escape charecters from the string "http://www.abc.com" if we

use escape() we get the result like this 'http%3A//www.abc.com' but i want the result like

'http//www.abc.com'. How it possible using jquery?

Answer 1

There's nothing in jQuery about unescpaing.

Core javascript has escape() and unescape() function.

var url = 'http://www.abc.com';

var escaped_url = escape(url);

console.log(escaped_url); // logs 'http%3A//www.abc.com'

console.log(unescape(escpaed_url)) // logs 'http://www.abc.com'

ie

unescape(escape('http://www.abc.com')) === 'http://www.abc.com'

Answer 2

Use a regex? replace(/[^a-z0-9\\s]/gi, '') function? Amend to characters you want to keep

Answer 3

escape() encodes the special characters! To remove the characters, use for example replaceAll(String regex, String replacement) .

In the regex -part you can insert all of the special character you want to remove.