String.replace and /

[Ed Brandmark]

I am trying to replace the /'s in an URL with %2F
So if the URL was

http://www.netscape.com/sports/

I want it to be
http:%2F%2Fwww. netscape.com%2F sports%2F

To do this I am trying the following JavaScript

str="http://www.netscape.co m/sports/"
replaceStr="%2F "

regExp = /\//g

str2=str.replac e(regExp, replaceStr)

and it doesn't work.
If I replace, say the http - it works fine - so there is something
wrong with the regular Expression.

I have also tried:

delim = "/g"
regExpValue = "\/"
regExp = eval ("/" + regExpValue + delim)

and that didn't work either.

I receive no errors - but nothing is replaced.

I did get the following to replace just the first /

str2=str.replac e("\/", "%2F")

but would liek to replace all the /'s

[Chris Crandell]

Re: String.replace and /


Ed Brandmark <ebrandmark@aol .com> wrote in message
news:5fbc4660.0 402241320.2e350 33a@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I am trying to replace the /'s in an URL with %2F
> So if the URL was
> http://www.netscape.com/sports/
> I want it to be
> http:%2F%2Fwww. netscape.com%2F sports%2F
>
> To do this I am trying the following JavaScript
>
> str="http://www.netscape.co m/sports/"
> replaceStr="%2F "
>
> regExp = /\//g
>
> str2=str.replac e(regExp, replaceStr)
>
> and it doesn't work.
> If I replace, say the http - it works fine - so there is something
> wrong with the regular Expression.
>
> I have also tried:
>
> delim = "/g"
> regExpValue = "\/"
> regExp = eval ("/" + regExpValue + delim)
>
> and that didn't work either.
>
> I receive no errors - but nothing is replaced.
>
> I did get the following to replace just the first /
>
> str2=str.replac e("\/", "%2F")
>
> but would liek to replace all the /'s[/color]

Hi Ed,
consider the following examples:

str="http://www.netscape.co m/sports/"
replaceStr="%2F "

regExp = new RegExp( "\/", "g");
alert( regExp);
str1=str.replac e(regExp, replaceStr)
alert( str + "\n" + str1);

str2=str.replac e( /\//g, replaceStr);
alert( str + "\n" + str2);