Replace Special Characters in a String

[mkeatley17]

Let's say someone copies the folowing list and pastes it into a Javascript prompt box:

302304

305678

245675

How do I manipulate the string so it reads:

302304 305678 245675

In other words, how do I replace the manual line breaks in a string with spaces?

Thanks!

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

Im still not very good with these reg exp but this would work although Im sure I missed a cleaner way…

var st = "302304\n305678\r245675"; $.write(st); $.writeln(''); var ns = st.replace(/(\r|\n)/g,' '); $.write(ns);

[Harbs. · Accepted solution]

This is the cleaner method you were looking for:

/[\n\r]/

In this situation, even a simple \s would work, but that might not be what the OP was looking for...

Harbs

[mkeatley17]

Thanks!

the final result works:

stringName = stringName.replace(/(\r|\n|\s)/g,' ');

[Harbs.]

\r and \n are both \s characters.

This is functionally equivalent to what you have...

stringName = stringName.replace(/\s/g,' ');

I highly recommend browsing this website (lots of useful info there):

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

Harbs