Description:

when you are working with Javascript | Node.js you can simply filter, strip or replace special characters,
alphabets and numerics from string or object by using this repository.

Installation:

npm install stripchar

Require:

var stripchar = require('stripchar').StripChar;

Usage:

// Strip all special characters EXCEPT underscore and alphanumeric

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpNum(input);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpNum('ne@w_t#est_id_@12'); // new_test_id_12

// Replace all special characters with desired oone EXCEPT underscore and alphanumeric

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpNum(input, replacewith);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpNum('new@test@id_12', '_'); // new_test_id_12

// Strip all special characters EXCEPT underscore and alphabet

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpha(input);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpha('ne@w_t#est_id_12'); // new_test_id_12

// Replace all special characters with desired oone EXCEPT underscore and alphabet

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpha(input, replacewith);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptUnsAlpha('new@test@id_12', '_'); // new_test_id_12

// Strip all special characters EXCEPT alphanumeric

stripchar.RSspecChar(input);

// Example

stripchar.RSspecChar('new@test@id'); // newtestid

// Replace all special characters with desired one EXCEPT alphanumeric

stripchar.RSspecChar(input, replacewith);

// Example

stripchar.RSspecChar('new@test@id', '_'); // new_test_id

// Strip everything EXCEPT numerics

stripchar.RSExceptNum(input);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptNum('new@test@id_99'); // 99

// Replace everything with desired character EXCEPT numerics

stripchar.RSExceptNum(input, replacewith);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptNum('new@test@id@99', '_'); // ____________99

// Strip everything EXCEPT alphabets

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha(input);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha('new@test@id_99'); // newtestid

// Replace everything with desired character EXCEPT alphabets

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha(input, replacewith);

// Example

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha('new@test@id@99', '#'); // new#test#id###

Instructions:

Use the following format of either string or object or else you will get "false" in return.

// JSON format
var obj = {"col1": "id_1", "col2": "id_2", "col3": "id_3"};

// String format
var str = 'new_test_id';

when using replacing part of function do not not use the following as replacement otherwise it will be ignored automatically.

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha('new@test@id@99', 'null'); // return false

stripchar.RSExceptAlpha('new@test@id@99', 'undefined'); // return false

Run Test:

simply type the following command to run the test from CLI.

npm test

// OR

mocha

License

Stripchar is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

Please support this project

Please support the project development, even a small donation can help grow this project!

Interested in some new feature?

Is there something new you like to see in this package ? Please contact me and i'll do my best to implement that in next releases.