Regex in Javascript using OR

Question

I'm trying to write a regex expression to match multiple characters such as , OR . OR : OR ( OR )

I have this

removePunctuation = /\.$|\,$|\:|\(|\)/;
word = rawList[j].replace(removePunctuation,"")

I just want to remove periods & commas at the end of the sentence but all instances of ( ) :

What am I doing wrong?

You want to look into [character sets](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp#character-sets) — epascarello, Aug 29 '16 at 14:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '16 at 14:17

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You need to add the "g" qualifier if you want to remove all the punctuation.

removePunctuation = /\.$|\,$|\:|\(|\)/g;

answered Aug 29 '16 at 14:17

Pointy

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '16 at 14:18

3

I'd go with something like this:

/[.,]+$|[:()]+/g

It'll match periods and commas at the end of a sentence, and brackets and colons everywhere.

answered Aug 29 '16 at 14:18

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