How to remove following symbol/special character in string using jquery ¶

Question

How to remove following symbol/special character in string using jquery

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I have problem during comparing two strings . Above mentioned symbol is append when I compute difference. I also test it in my local application please check link below.

http://neil.fraser.name/software/diff_match_patch/svn/trunk/demos/demo_diff.html

Answer 1

var s = "This is a string that contains ¶, a special character.";
s = s.replace(/¶/g, "");

Yields:

"This is a string that contains , a special character."

This will remove all occurrences of the character. No jQuery necessary - just vanilla browser-provided JavaScript.

Some additional details are available at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace.