javascript functions

[crystalized]

Hi all

Is there a javascript function that goes through a string and replaces instances of some substring with another string. I know in VBScript there is the Replace function that does this.

If anyone knows of a function (and especially the syntax for it) or where I can find a function like this I would greatly appreciate the pointer.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jfriestman]

You can do a replace but you gotta use a regular expression.

You can see the syntax of the command at this website:

http://209.55.107.62/javascript/string.htm#1194258

p.s. that is the Netscape Javascript 1.3 documentation hosted on my machine at home using my DSL connection so don't expect anything too fancy .

 

[crystalized]

As it turns out I was able to handle what I needed by altering the stored procedure that was providing the data.

What I did was shave off the first 2 characters of each of the words in the resultset (which are the -- I wanted to replace)

Then since I am using Visual Interdev within the Grid DTC you can format output using javascript. In this case I just had to concatenate the two spaces onto the front of the descriptions in the resultset. It was there in the formating of the resultset that I wanted to use the replace function.