[Javascript] Re: Escaping the PLUS SIGN
innerlab.com
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Sun Sep 14 18:31:37 CDT 2003
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis Shadoff"
> Use the character encoding for the plus sign: strCut = "+";
> http://www.asciitable.com/
Hello: I'm afraid it didn't work. But at least it doesn't trigger a
javascript error.
Thanks anyway.
> At 12:00 PM 9/14/2003, innerlab.com wrote:
> >I am trying to replace plus signs in a string with another character, but
> >I am getting a lot of errors. Below is a simple example in which a text
> >in a string is replaced by another:
> >
> >var str ="She sells sea shells by the sea"; // original string
> >
> >var strCut = "shells"; // text to be replaced by the one below
> >var replStr = "food"; // text that replaces the one above
> >
> >// replacing actions
> >var reg = new RegExp("\\b" + strCut + "\\b", "gi" )
> >var newstr = str.replace(reg, replStr)
> >
> >// output
> >document.write(newstr)
> >
> >The original string becomes "She sells sea food by the sea"
> >
> >Now, how can I make the variable strCut be a plus sign?
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