Regex remove all special characters except numbers?

If you don't mind including the underscore as an allowed character, you could try simply:

result = subject.replace(/\W+/g, "");

If the underscore must be excluded also, then

result = subject.replace(/[^A-Z0-9]+/ig, "");

(Note the case insensitive flag)


To remove the special characters, try

var name = name.replace(/[!@#$%^&*]/g, "");

Use the global flag:

var name = name.replace(/[^a-zA-Z ]/g, "");
                                    ^

If you don't want to remove numbers, add it to the class:

var name = name.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/g, "");