Trouble stripping commas

[verber001]

I have a string that I've pulled in from a text area as a string, I've done:

var punct_less = s.replace(/[\.,-\/#!$%\^&\*;:{}=\-_`~()]/g,"");
				var finalString = punct_less.replace(/\s{2,}/g,"");

Then I through it in an array, actually a couple sorting and resorting.

Then I finally took the array and used toString() on it and then I have tried every permutation of .replace() to pull the commas out of the rather large string with no success. My latest attempt was:

inalstr = final.toString();    
				finalstr.replace(/,/g, ' ');

Could someone give me some guidance here? I've messed with reg exp as you can see up top...someone where when I split or toString it added all these commas. Thanks a lot people

[xelawho]

did you try with join?

arr =[1,2,3,4]
alert(arr.join(""))