Querystring and & 1

[seanybravo]

I am trying to send some category information using a querystring unfortunateley some categories have a & in. I have managed to sort the spaces our but I am still having trouble with the andpersand.

	strSend.replace(/ /g, "+")
	strSend.replace(/&/gi, "%26")

Can anyone please explain why this is failing to work.

Thanks

 

[cLFlaVA]

try using a leading backslash. special characters need to be "escaped" in regular expressions. also, i believe you need to set a variable to hold the result of the call to replace...

[red]strSend = [/red]strSend.replace(/[red]\[/red]&/gi, "%26")

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[ggriffit]

why not use ESCAPE on the part of the string you need to -

http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/

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