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Replacing characters

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developer155

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Hi,
I need to replace all occurances of a chracter in a string.
So when I do this:
somestring.replace(/;/g,"") it replaces ALL occurances of ; in the string.
But when I do this:
replace(/(/g,"") it throws an error.

Now when I do this: replace("(","") it only replaces 1 occurence of ( in the string. What gives?

Thanks!!
 
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never mind, I found the answer! need to use escape \
 
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