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SumNeuron
SumNeuron

Reputation: 5188

Regex: scrub punctuation except if inside a word?

I'm not great at regex but I have this for removing punctuation from a string.

let text = 'a user provided string'
let pattern = /(-?\d+(?:[.,]\d+)*)|[-.,()&$#![\]{}"']+/g;
text.replace(pattern, "$1");

I am looking for a way to modify this so that it keeps punctuation if inside a word e.g.

should all keep the punctuation. How would I modify it for that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 165

Answers (1)

The fourth bird
The fourth bird

Reputation: 163277

One option could be changing the \d to \w to extend the match to word characters and add a hyphen to the character class in the capturing group.

In the replacement use group 1.

(\w+(?:[.,-]\w+)*)|[-.,()&$#![\]{}"']+

Regex demo

If you want to match multiple hyphens, commas or dots you could repeat the character class [.,-]+

Upvotes: 1

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