replacing several characters using javascript replace

Question

I want to replace all the occurrences of accented characters À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å with "A" using javascript replace ( For example, "ÀNÁPIÂLÃZÄ" would be rendered to "ANAPIALAZA"). I tried:

var re = /À||Á||À||Á||Â||Ã||Ä||Å/g; 
name =  name.replace(re,"A");

and

var  re = /(ÀÁÂÃÄÅ)/g;
name =  name.replace(re,"A");

I not sure how to express the desired rule in regex pattern. Thanks

Your first attempt should have worked, except you should only have a single pipe between the characters, not two pipes. — Barmar
– Barmar, Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 0:56
Note that there are more than one way to render ÀÁ (not sure about other characters, but it may also applies): either a single character, or a base character plus a combining diacritics. — nhahtdh
– nhahtdh, Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 7:11

chrx · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-04 00:51:53Z

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Square [ ] brackets will solve your problem.

var  re = /[ÀÁÂÃÄÅ]/g;
name =  name.replace(re,"A");

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/y2a6x/

answered Apr 4, 2013 at 0:51

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Edville Over a year ago

Thanks for giving that link.

tckmn · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-04 00:52:16Z

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Use [] square brackets, like this:

/[ÀÁÀÁÂÃÄÅ]/g

The problem with your first || example, by the way, is that you should only use one | in regexes.

answered Apr 4, 2013 at 0:52

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