hi,
i'm checking for a regular expression in a parameter passed into a function and i just cannot seem to get what i want to do done right..

code:

var searchString = /Form1.\g/;
var p_item_fixed = arguments[0].toString();

if (p_item_fixed.search(searchString)) {
   p_item_fixed.replace(searchString, "");
}

alert(p_item_fixed);

for some reason it finds the regular expression: "Form1." but it never does the replace. I'm sure it's something mundane I'm missing, but I'm pulling my hair out about this and I need to figure this out.

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Thanks,
Ian K. Dayton, OH

Hii kapstan!!
Two lines you need to change
1>var searchString = /Form1.\g/;
  to var searchString = /Form1\./g;
2> p_item_fixed.replace(searchString, "");
to p_item_fixed=p_item_fixed.replace(searchString, "");

so your code will be
var searchString = /Form1\./g;
var p_item_fixed = arguments[0].toString();
if (p_item_fixed.search(searchString)) {
   p_item_fixed=p_item_fixed.replace(searchString, "");
}

alert(p_item_fixed);

Hope this will help you.


Cheers :)

vinod

Hii Hii kapstan!!

One thing i noticed that!!
we can do the same thing with test() method of Regular expression.
Now I think test() is faster than search(),Please anyone have idea about it ??then let me know.

   [search method first call -->test method]
or [test method first--->call search() method ??? ,Still in not sure]



var searchString = /Form1\./g;
var p_item_fixed = arguments[0].toString();

if (searchString.test(p_item_fixed)) {
  p_item_fixed=p_item_fixed.replace(searchString, "");
}
alert(p_item_fixed);


plz visit for more info
http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/func...ts23/page2.asp


Cheers :)

vinod

thanks for the tip. I ended up completely redoing how I am approaching this problem and returning the parameter passed in to another function and doing the string manipulation there.

Thanks!