String.replace and /

[Ed Brandmark]

I am trying to replace the /'s in an URL with %2F
So if the URL was
http://www.netscape.com/sports/
I want it to be
http:%2F%2Fwww.netscape.com%2Fsports%2F

To do this I am trying the following JavaScript

str="http://www.netscape.com/sports/"
replaceStr="%2F"

regExp = /\//g

str2=str.replace(regExp, replaceStr)

and it doesn't work.
If I replace, say the http - it works fine - so there is something
wrong with the regular Expression.

I have also tried:

delim = "/g"
regExpValue = "\/"
regExp = eval ("/" + regExpValue + delim)

and that didn't work either.

I receive no errors - but nothing is replaced.

I did get the following to replace just the first /

str2=str.replace("\/", "%2F")

but would liek to replace all the /'s

[Chris Crandell]

Ed Brandmark <eb********@aol.com> wrote in message
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I am trying to replace the /'s in an URL with %2F
So if the URL was
http://www.netscape.com/sports/
I want it to be
http:%2F%2Fwww.netscape.com%2Fsports%2F

To do this I am trying the following JavaScript

str="http://www.netscape.com/sports/"
replaceStr="%2F"

regExp = /\//g

str2=str.replace(regExp, replaceStr)

and it doesn't work.
If I replace, say the http - it works fine - so there is something
wrong with the regular Expression.

I have also tried:

delim = "/g"
regExpValue = "\/"
regExp = eval ("/" + regExpValue + delim)

and that didn't work either.

I receive no errors - but nothing is replaced.

I did get the following to replace just the first /

str2=str.replace("\/", "%2F")

but would liek to replace all the /'s

Hi Ed,
consider the following examples:

str="http://www.netscape.com/sports/"
replaceStr="%2F"

regExp = new RegExp( "\/", "g");
alert( regExp);
str1=str.replace(regExp, replaceStr)
alert( str + "\n" + str1);

str2=str.replace( /\//g, replaceStr);
alert( str + "\n" + str2);