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MB
I need to replace all occurances of a certain character located between
two tags. I have included an example of what i have come up with so far,
but it doesn't work they way I want it to:

str = "some content<script type=\"text/javascript\">va r str =
'asdfasdfASDFAS DF';<\/script>";
str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>.*? )a(.*?<\/script>)/gim, "$1X$2");
alert(str);

In this example, i want all 'a' between the script tags to be replaced
by 'X', but only the first is replaced. How can I modify this to replace
*all* occurances of 'a'?

/MB
Mar 29 '07 #1
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MB wrote on 29 mrt 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:
I need to replace all occurances of a certain character located between
two tags. I have included an example of what i have come up with so far,
but it doesn't work they way I want it to:

str = "some content<script type=\"text/javascript\">va r str =
'asdfasdfASDFAS DF';<\/script>";
str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>.*? )a(.*?<\/script>)/gim, "$1X$2");
alert(str);

In this example, i want all 'a' between the script tags to be replaced
by 'X', but only the first is replaced. How can I modify this to replace
*all* occurances of 'a'?
str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>)(. *)(?=<\/script>)/gi, function(x,y,z)
{return y+z.replace(/a/gi,'Z')})

[beware of line break. IE tested]

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Mar 29 '07 #2
MB
>I need to replace all occurances of a certain character located between
>two tags. I have included an example of what i have come up with so far,
but it doesn't work they way I want it to:

str = "some content<script type=\"text/javascript\">va r str =
'asdfasdfASDFA SDF';<\/script>";
str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>.*? )a(.*?<\/script>)/gim, "$1X$2");
alert(str);

In this example, i want all 'a' between the script tags to be replaced
by 'X', but only the first is replaced. How can I modify this to replace
*all* occurances of 'a'?

str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>)(. *)(?=<\/script>)/gi, function(x,y,z)
{return y+z.replace(/a/gi,'Z')})

[beware of line break. IE tested]
Thanks. This works well, however only as long as the contents of 'str'
is just one line. It does not find any matches when I have several
lines. I tried adding the m-flag to the regular expressions, but that
didn't work. Can this be solved too?

/MB
Mar 29 '07 #3
MB wrote on 29 mrt 2007 in comp.lang.javas cript:
>>I need to replace all occurances of a certain character located
between two tags. I have included an example of what i have come up
with so far, but it doesn't work they way I want it to:

str = "some content<script type=\"text/javascript\">va r str =
'asdfasdfASDF ASDF';<\/script>";
str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>.*? )a(.*?<\/script>)/gim, "$1X$2");
alert(str);

In this example, i want all 'a' between the script tags to be
replaced by 'X', but only the first is replaced. How can I modify
this to replace *all* occurances of 'a'?

str = str.replace(/(<script.*?>)(. *)(?=<\/script>)/gi,
function(x,y,z ) {return y+z.replace(/a/gi,'Z')})

[beware of line break. IE tested]

Thanks. This works well, however only as long as the contents of 'str'
is just one line. It does not find any matches when I have several
lines. I tried adding the m-flag to the regular expressions, but that
didn't work. Can this be solved too?

str = str.replace(/\n/g,'\uffff').rep lace(/(<script.*?>)(. *)(?=
<\/script>)/gi, function(x,y,z) {return y+z.replace(/a/gi,'Z')}).repla ce(/
\uffff/g,'\n')

[beware of line breaks. IE tested]

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Mar 29 '07 #4

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