Replace ampesand with regular expression

[jwhittlestone]

Hi, I would like to remove ampersands from text and repace them with the HTML special character.

This is so that I can use them in a query string.

This is my code but it doesn't work, can you see a problem with it?

//if have needed to escape the string for previous operations

textarea.value=unescape(textarea.value);
content = textarea.value;
content = content.replace("&","&");

Thanks in adance

Jon

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

This is totally the wrong thing to do. Think about it for a minute - if you replace "&" with "&", your query string will still have an "&" in it, won't it?

You should escape your string using the "escape" function instead.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[jwhittlestone]

oh yeah thanks, im such a tool! Well, I've just substituted it for "and" and then I'll do a PHP regex on the subsequent page to get the amp;

thanks..

jon