Tim Mackey's Weblog

i've seen a ton of different approaches to people using the javascript string function, including some homemade versions. 

the javascript replace function uses regular expressions, so it doesn't work like the C# or VB functions.  (i hoped it would)

what is also unusual for c# programmers is that the pattern you pass into the function does not get wrapped in quotes.

example: to replace all single-quotes in a string variable (called s) with the ` character:

s = s.replace(/'/gi, '`');

if that looks like gobbledegook i'll explain. the first / character starts the pattern, and the ' character is what we want to replace. the second / character ends the pattern and allows us to include options for the regex parser. g means global and i means ignore case.

i'm really only posting this so i'll remember it myself!