Replace all substrings start and end with specific character

Question

I am trying to replace all substrings which start with the & character and end with ;. For example "

Will be great if somebody can suggest me how to convert all unicodes.

Can you provide an example on you have done so far? We can start from that to try to help you. — Andrea, Nov 21 '16 at 10:38
`how to convert all unicodes`, you want to convert everything? — Kevin Kloet, Nov 21 '16 at 10:39
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7394748/whats-the-right-way-to-decode-a-string-that-has-special-html-entities-in-it — Wiktor Stribiżew, Nov 21 '16 at 10:40
Thank you for response. I have tried this regex string.replace("\\&.*?\\;", ""); I have something like this - " "Some&quot "; I expect "Some" — Mag, Nov 21 '16 at 10:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '16 at 10:52

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Instance a RegExp object with &.*?; expression and the g flag then use it to perform replacement with an empty string

"&quot;Some&quot;".replace(new RegExp("&.*?;", "g"), "");

answered Nov 21 '16 at 10:52

Xavi López

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