remove anything not a letter from string javascript

remove non letters from a string javascript

// remove non-letters from a string
function lettersOnly(str) {
	return str.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g,"");
   //or return str.match(/[a-z]/gi).join('');
   //or return str.replace(/[^a-z]/gi,""); 
}

console.log(lettersOnly("R!=:~0o0./c&}9k`60=y"));		//"Rocky"
console.log(lettersOnly("^,]%4B|@56a![0{2m>b1&4i4"));	//"Bambi"
console.log(lettersOnly("^U)6$22>8p)."));				//"Up"

Posted by: Guest on March-12-2021

substr() – removes a character from a particular index in the String. replace() – replaces a specific character/string with another character/string. slice() – extracts parts of a string between the given parameters.

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