javascript regular expression to match ASCII

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I would like help on building a regular expression to find ACII codes

So far I came up with this, http://jsfiddle.net/G7cab/

but as you'll notice I'm not capturing all the groups that match this expression.

I would appreciate some help Many thanks in advance.

from what I can see you are trying to match HTML entities -- are you trying to remove them from the string? — Liv, May 24 '11 at 12:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

Here's a shorter form for (what I understood you) wanted to do based on your fiddle:

var s = '&#39; &#94; hola tio, que tal estas? &#33;'
          .replace(/(&#\d+;)/g,
             function(a){
              return String.fromCharCode(a.substr(2,a.length-3));
             }
           );
 alert(s); //=> ' ^ hola tio, que tal estas? !

So, the regular expression here is /(&#\d+;)/g

By the way, &[#num][name]; are called (numeric) html entities. The code here is only working for such entities (so, not for named html entities like © (©) etc.). If you want to do that (and within a browser), use the method from the elected answer in this SO question

Thanks to all for the answers , much appreciated! (and sorry for the confusion about HTML entities) — just_a_dude, May 24 '11 at 13:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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I guess you're trying to unescape HTML Entities. It was discussed on SO:

Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered May 24 '11 at 12:16

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