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Ebrar Bayburt
Ebrar Bayburt

Reputation: 37

jquery replacing special characters in a string

I will replace c:\pictures\picture1.png to c:\\pictures\\picture1.png

i.e: 

var data="c:\pictures\picture1.png"
data=data.raplace('\','\\');

in asp.net it can run with

data=data.replace('\\','\\\\');

when I use this method in jquery it replaced only the firs '\' character and it comes so:

c:\\pictures\picture1.png

how can I replace all '\' characters

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2357

Answers (3)

sasi
sasi

Reputation: 4318

you can perform a global replacement by using g..

The g modifier is used to perform a global match (find all matches rather than stopping after the first match).

.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\'));

data = data.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\')

Upvotes: 2

tymeJV
tymeJV

Reputation: 104785

Expressions will help you here: http://jsfiddle.net/jC8hM/

var data = "c:\\pictures\\picture1.png"

alert(data);
data = data.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\");

alert(data);

To write a single instance of "\" you need to write "\". So to write "\", you need "\\".

Upvotes: 1

Cory Gagliardi
Cory Gagliardi

Reputation: 780

If you search for the \ using a regular expression, you can use the g flag at the end of the expression to indicate you want to do a "global" search.

Also, your example is off. Any time you want to use the literal \ you need to write it twice as in \\.

var data="c:\\pictures\\picture1.png"
data = data.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\')

Upvotes: 3

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