Jquery Invisible string in input text

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Hi guys please help me with this.

i have some issue regarding some email validation that doesn't match my regex. What's my issues all about was i think are \n or \r but when i try

var count = $("input#email_address").val().length;

Got the result of 25 when copy from excel to my text box VS Manual input with the same text and the result is 24 characters.

var str = $("input#email_address").val().replace(/\r?\n/g, "");

i tried this and trim() and match to find \r \n or whitespaces but return null.

did i missed something here? im new to jquery and javascript. — Bug Man
– Bug Man, Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 19:51
Try this, excel adds more tabs var str = $("input#email_address").val().replace(/[\r\n\t]/g, ""); — MoustafaS
– MoustafaS, Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 19:52
Take a look at the answers here. It might help stackoverflow.com/questions/1144783/… — applecrusher
– applecrusher, Commented Oct 25, 2016 at 19:53

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:34:15Z

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First remove all unreadable characters, just in case:

var str = $("input#email_address").val().replace(/[\x00-\x1f]+/g, "");

Then, you should also check if some special characters in the string are multibyte. In that case, you need a more elaborated approach, see:

String length in bytes in JavaScript

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:10:54Z

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Okay in case you encounter this. Here's the solution.

I checked the value of my input text by calling escape(str), and i got the result "%[email protected]" it should be "[email protected]" they called this zero width space(correct me if i'm wrong".

and here's the fix.

str = str.replace(/\u200B/g,'');

JavaScript remove ZERO WIDTH SPACE (unicode 8203) from string

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