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Replacing Special Characters in JavaScript
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replacespecialchars.js
const replaceSpecialChars = (str) => {
return str.normalize('NFD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '') // Remove accents
.replace(/([^\w]+|\s+)/g, '-') // Replace space and other characters by hyphen
.replace(/\-\-+/g, '-') // Replaces multiple hyphens by one hyphen
.replace(/(^-+|-+$)/, ''); // Remove extra hyphens from beginning or end of the string
}
console.log(replaceSpecialChars('This is a sentence!!!'));
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