String Question

Bakusozoku · 02-23-2006, 01:33 PM

How can I for example can replace certain charecter from a string?
Fo example, I want to replace from a string(gets the value from an input type or text area) the charecter ' (apostrophe) to `
How can I do it?

Nischumacher · 02-23-2006, 01:41 PM

str = str.replace(/'/g, '`');

Bakusozoku · 02-23-2006, 02:12 PM

Thanks but I'm pretty weak in JS, a full function would be nice

Nischumacher · 02-23-2006, 02:49 PM

with a function...

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function RePLaCeR(TeXTaRea)
{ TeXTaRea.value = TeXTaRea.value.replace(/'/g, '`');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea name="TeXTio" rows="20" cols="70"></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="button" name=btnReplace value="Replace" onclick="RePLaCeR(TeXTio)">
</body>
</html>

without a function...

Code:

<html>
<body>
<textarea name="TeXTio" rows="20" cols="70"></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="button" name=btnReplace value="Replace" onclick="TeXTio.value=TeXTio.value.replace(/'/g, '`');">
</body>
</html>

Kor · 02-23-2006, 04:25 PM

eeer... Nischumacher, document's elements must have the document object as root refrence. IE incorrecty accepts that shorthand, but objects, on a page, might belong to the window (variables, functions) or might belong to the document (tags, textNodes...). A form's element must also be referenced so.

On the other hand, if passing a string value to a function, pass it as a string, not as an object. The object and the object's name/id are different things.

Your code should have looked like
<input type="button" name="btnReplace" value="Replace" onclick="document.getElementsByName('TeXTio')[0].value=document.getElementsByName('TeXTio')[0].value.replace(/'/g, '`');">

Or use id instead of name, and getElementById(id)

But, in this particular case, it is enought to use this self reference and onkeyup event.

And, the last but not the least, I guess that the safest way to deal with special characters in javascript is to use unicode escapes (according to the charset specification). So that things are much more simplier so:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" onkeyup="this.value=this.value.replace(/\u0027/,'\u0060')">
</body>
</html>

Nischumacher · 02-23-2006, 04:45 PM

your suggestions would be henceforth put into action...

Bakusozoku · 02-24-2006, 06:43 AM

Thank you guys

helped me alot

glenngv · 02-24-2006, 11:55 AM

I'm guessing that you are using that input to store in the database and you want to avoid syntax error in the SQL statement. In that case, you should change the single quote in the server-side. You usually escape the single quote by using 2 single quotes to avoid error in SQL statement. Here's a sample code in case you're using ASP and SQL.