diff --git a/snippets/removeAccents.md b/snippets/removeAccents.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea5d0ec1d --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/removeAccents.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: removeAccents +tags: string,beginner +--- + +Removes accents from strings. + +- Use `String.prototype.normalize()` to convert the string to a normalized Unicode format. +- Use `String.prototype.replace()` to replace diacritical marks in the given Unicode range by empty strings. + +```js +const removeAccents = str => str.normalize("NFD").replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, ""); +``` + +```js +removeAccents('Antoine de Saint-Exupéry'); // 'Antoine de Saint-Exupery' +```