title: Regular expression string compare ignoring symbols
body: <p>I have two variables:</p>
  
  <pre><code>varAdditionalTeamAddress = ;; MountainWestITSupport@somedomain.com
  
  VariableAddTeamEmails =  ; MountainWestITSupport@somedomain.com;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These two variables are being used to concatenate and collect additional support team emails. But in the process of concatenation, if the emails are empty, only the semicolons come over.</p>
  
  <p>I need to compare these two variables (ignoring the ;) to see if they are equal. Can we write a regular expression to extract all semicolons and spaces from this email string so they are comparable?</p>
  
  <p>Like for the above, had I cleaned them up by excluding the spaces and semicolons, the equality test would have returned TRUE.</p>
  
  <p>Regex gurus, please help. PS I need REGEX way of doing this.</p>