Removing wild cards from search string

[Nitinkcv]

Hi,

I have a textbox and a button. In my textbox i have to enter the query string(say shoes) and on clicking the button takes me to a page show all item related to the search string( in this case shoes). But on mixing the search string with wildcards it displays that no items could be found. For eg: for search string s@h^o$e@s it would go to the error page.



So is there ant way i could like extract the wildcards out of my search string and onlly get the required word. so if search string entered is s@h^o$e@s then it should remove all the wild card and extract the word 'shoes' from s@h^o$e@s and pass it on.



Thanks,

Nitin

[mrhoo]

searchstring=searchstring.replace(/[\W]/g,'');
will remove everything except letters, the underscore and digits from the string.