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// in the regex, the carrot(^) negates the match, so if the stringToReplace contains something that is not a-z or 0-9 it will be replaced
// In this case the desired string will only be alpha numeric characters, stripping out spaces and symbols
// Help from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4374822/javascript-regexp-remove-all-special-characters
var desired = stringToReplace.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/gi, '')