Regex every non-alphanumeric character except white space or colon

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How can I do this one anywhere   Basically  I am trying to match all kinds of miscellaneous characters such as ampersands  semicolons  dollar signs  etc

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a-zA-Z d s       d - numeric class  s - whitespace a-zA-Z - matches all the letters   - negates them all - so you get - non numeric chars  non spaces and non colons

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This regex works for C   PCRE and Go to name a few   It doesn t work for JavaScript on Chrome from what RegexBuddy says  But there s already an example for that here   This main part of this is    p L   which represents  p L  or  p Letter  any kind of letter from any language      The full regex itself     w d s  p L    Example  https   regex101 com r K59PrA 2

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This should do it     a-zA-Z d s

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Try this     a-zA-Z0-9      JavaScript example           ABC def 123  replace    a-zA-Z0-9    g         See a online example   http   jsfiddle net vhMy8

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No alphanumeric  white space or          var reg       w s       g

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If you mean  non-alphanumeric characters   try to use this   var reg     a-zA-Z0-9  g          abc

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In JavaScript       w   g    negation  i e  select anything not in the following set   w any word character  i e  any alphanumeric character  plus underscore     negate the underscore  as it s considered a  word  character  Usage example - const nonAlphaNumericChars       w   g

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Try to add this      a-zA-Z d s       This has worked for me

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If you want to treat accented latin characters  eg         as normal letters  ie  avoid matching them too   you ll also need to include the appropriate Unicode range   u00C0- u00FF  in your regex  so it would look like this      a-zA-Z d s  u00C0- u00FF  g      negates what follows a-zA-Z matches upper and lower case letters  d matches digits  s matches white space  if you only want to match spaces  replace this with a space    matches a colon  u00C0- u00FF matches the Unicode range for accented latin characters    nb  Unicode range matching might not work for all regex engines  but the above certainly works in Javascript  as seen in this pen on Codepen    nb2  If you re not bothered about matching underscores  you could replace a-zA-Z d with  w  which matches letters  digits  and underscores

[regex] Regex, every non-alphanumeric character except white space or colon

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