Replace Carriage Return

OceanDesigner · Aug 12, 2004

I have a page with a button and some text fields. When the button is pushed a new window opens that prints the text in the text fields in window 1 to the page in window 2. I do this with in line javascript:

Code:

document.write("<td>" + opener.document.myform.Description.value + "</td>");

This field can have carriage returns, but the returns are not observed in the second page. So I need to replace the carriage returns with "<br>". In vbscript, I can do this very simply with: replace(variable,chr(13),"<br>"). What is the comparable code in javascript?

Thanks, Jeff

OceanDesigner · Aug 12, 2004

Got it. In javascritpt it looks like this:

variable.replace("\n","<br>")

kaht · Aug 12, 2004

I just wrote this 2 days ago to test some regex:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>

function regexpCheck(str) {
   str = str.replace(/[\n]/g, "<br>");
   str = str.replace(/[\r]/g, "");
   alert(str);
}

</SCRIPT>

<BODY>
<FORM NAME="blahForm">
<textarea NAME=blahText rows=10></textarea><br>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON VALUE='Remove Carriage Returns' NAME=blahButton ONCLICK='regexpCheck(blahForm.blahText.value);'>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

-kaht

kaht · Aug 12, 2004

Close.....

You need to compensate for both newline and linefeed.

-kaht

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