Remove a long dash from a string in JavaScript?

Question

I\'ve come across an error in my web app that I\'m not sure how to fix.

Text boxes are sending me the long dash as part of their content (you know, the special long dash

Answer 1

That character is call an Em Dash. You can replace it like so:

str.replace('\u2014', '');​​​​​​​​​​

Here is an example Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/x67Ph/

The \u2014 is called a unicode escape sequence. These allow to to specify a unicode character by its code. 2014 happens to be the Em Dash.