how do i remove certain characters from a string

Question

so I have a string that i need to remove special characters from like {}:">?!@#$%^&*()_
how can i do this

Answer 1

Using regular expression

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4374822/remove-all-special-characters-with-regexp

Example:
let str = 'he//o w&&rld'

var output = str.replace(/[`~!@#$%^&*()_|+\-=?;:'",.<>\{\}\[\]\\\/]/gi, '');

This is a bit messy so I'm sure you can figure out better solution

Maybe it's better to only accept letters & numbers?

str.replace["^A-Za-z"]

Answer 2

what I think ill do is HNNX's answer thanks :)