I'm trying to sort out how to replace a substring in a string when the substring to be found/replaced is a variable that may have one or more occurrences of a forward slash. I suspect the issue is in escaping the incoming string properly....but I'm kind of lost on the syntax to insert the escapes correctly.
var incomingStr = 'some text/take / out/ and yet more.';
var removethis = '/take / out/';
newStr = incomingStr.replace(removethis," ");
newStr should be: 'some text and yet more.'
You can "quote" or "escape" it using a backslash:
var removethis = '/take \/ out/';
Or if you prefer, you can wrap it in a character class:
var removethis = '/take [/] out/';
It does work! Here is an example on jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/pipalia/BdvZn/
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function testStr() {
var incomingStr = 'some text/take / out/ and yet more.';
var removethis = '/take / out/';
var newStr = incomingStr.replace(removethis,"");
alert(newStr);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="testStr()">Click here</button>
</body>
</html>
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