Replace slashes with dots in javascript regex

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I have a date and I want to replace all the slashes with dots. This is what I have but it's not working:

var TheDate = "3 / 29 / 2017";
TheDate = TheDate.replace(/'/'/g,'.');
alert(TheDate);

What's not right? There's a jsFiddle here to test.

georg · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-30 00:39:31Z

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Your expression should be /\//g

var d = "3 / 29 / 2017";
d = d.replace(/\//g,'.');
document.body.append(d);

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ozziexsh · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-30 00:08:35Z

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Replace /'/'/g with /[/]/g

/ - start of the regex
[/] match characters inside square brackets
/g end of the regex

Regex resources:

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gabesoft · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-30 00:07:32Z

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Try this TheDate.replace(/\//g, '.')

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m1kael · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-30 00:07:49Z

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var TheDate = "3 / 29 / 2017";
TheDate = TheDate.replace(/\//g,'.');     
alert(TheDate);

You need to escape the / character. You do it by prepending it with a \.

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