[Javascript] Replace Characters

[twlewis at softhome.net (Tim Lewis)]

Thank you David.  I used your recommendation:

 sLineOut13 = sLineOut11.replace(/\u000d/g,'\u000d\u000a');

It works excellent.



> On 16/05/07, Tim Lewis <twlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a file with carriage returns(ASCII 13) only, and I need to
>> replace
>> these with carriage return and line feed(ASCII 13 and 10).
>>
>> My code was not work, so I created a simple test using the
>> String.fromCharCode and replace.  It is not working either.  I have
>> included the simple code below.  The idea in the code is to replace the
>> d
>> in dog with an l.  It appears that the replace function does not
>> recognize
>> an ASCII value.  Is there a way to make the replace function use an
>> ASCII
>> value?
>
> Yes there is, but not through doing this:
>
>> sLineOut = sLineIn.replace(/chr100/g,chr108);
>
> You are here trying to replace any piece of the string that contains
> one of each of the characters 'c', 'h', 'r', '1', '0' and '0', in that
> order, with the value from the variable chr108.
>
>
> You can't enter variables into regex, short of by using
>
>     new RegExp(...)
>
> However, you can use the same character escapes in regex as you can in
> JavaScript strings. CR is '\u000d', '\x0d', or '\r'. LF is '\u000a',
> '\x0a' or  '\n'. Note however that some browsers use '\n' in strings
> for the platform convention line ending and not for LF, so in this
> case I'd recommend you to use the unicode literal.
> --
> David "liorean" Andersson
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