JavaScript RegEx to white list chars, how bad is my approach?

I'm using JavaScript RegEx to filter input (white list only acceptable chars). As .match() returns an array, the best way 开发者_高级运维I found to 'glue' back together the string is as follows, which seems ugly, as then I have to remove the comma.

myString.match(/[A-Za-z-_0-9]/g).toString().replace(/,/g,'')

Is there a better RegEx approach in JS, or a better way to handle the array (e.g. like .join in Ruby)?

Thanks Brian

There is a join in JavaScript as well. For instance:

myString.match(/[A-Za-z-_0-9]/g).join("")

The "" is the separator between each element of the array, so [1, 2, 3].join("") gives "123". However, you could also simply replace all characters not in your whitelist:

myString.replace(/[^A-Za-z-_0-9]/g, "")

Which will simply remove any character that isn't alphanumeric, a dash, or an underscore.