Showing posts with label string manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label string manipulation. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

JavaScript String Replace All... and Then Some...

Need to replace text in a JavaScript string? Use string.replace and you're done. Unless, of course, there are multiple instances to be replaced, since the string.replace() function only replaces the first occurrence.

I had that problem, and found Brandino's article, JavaScript String Replace All to be just the trick.

It seems that you can use a regular expression as the target of the string.replace function.

In fact, in addition to being able to do multiple replaces on a single target, this also would allow you to create a regex target for your replace that would replace different things with the same replacement text... which could be handy if you need to remove or replace certain unwanted characters throughout a string...