Replace (String)

[zzfive03]

I want to get rid of single quotes out of my string, It does not appear to be working. Should I be doing something differently than the example:

var temp = "Mark's House";
Re = new RegExp (/'/, 'gi');
temp = temp.replace(Re, '');
response.write (temp);

Thank you.

 

[BigBadDave]

This will work:

re = /'/;
str = "Mark's House";
newstr = str.replace(re, "");
document.write(newstr)

Regards
David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com

 

[xutopia]

Javascript doesn't use response.write(str) but document.write(str).

the ' character needs to be escape in Regular expressions. So your regular expression should look like : /\'/

You need to declare the variable Re with var in front of it.

I prefer the shorthand version for RegExp instead of :

Re = new RegExp (/'/, 'gi');

use :

var Re = /\'/gi;

My working example in my coding convention would be :

var str = "Mark's House".replace(/\'/gi, '');
document.write(str);

I hope this works for you!



Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[zzfive03]

Thank you both!!

Worked great.

 

[xutopia]

sorry Dave I must have clicked enter two nanoseconds after you. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran