How to globally replace a forward slash in a JavaScript string

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var str     questions      input    questions  while str indexOf         -1      str   str replace       http   stackoverflow com       alert str      output   http   stackoverflow com questions    The proposed regex     g did not work for me  the rest of the line    g  replacement    was commented out

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Use a regex literal with the g modifier  and escape the forward slash with a backslash so it doesn t clash with the delimiters   var str    some    slashes   replacement       var replaced   str replace     g  replacement

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This is Christopher Lincolns idea but with correct code   function replace str find replace       if  find                 str   str toString            var aStr   str split find           for var i   0  i  lt  aStr length  i                  if  i  gt  0                   str   str   replace   aStr i                else                  str   aStr i                                     return str      Example Usage   var somevariable   replace          sdfas                 sdf   replacethis       Javascript global string replacement is unecessarily complicated   This function solves that problem   There is probably a small performance impact  but I m sure its negligable   Heres an alternative function  looks much cleaner  but is on average about 25 to 20 percent slower than the above function   function replace str find replace       if  find                  str   str toString   split find  join replace             return str

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You can create a RegExp object to make it a bit more readable str replace new RegExp        foobar     If you want to replace all of them add the  quot g quot  flag str replace new RegExp       g     foobar

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This has worked for me in turning      into just       str replace       g

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The following would do but only will replace one occurence    string  replace       ForwardSlash      For a global replacement  or if you prefer regular expressions  you just have to escape the slash    string  replace     g   ForwardSlash

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Hi a small correction in the above script    above script skipping the first character when displaying the output   function stripSlashes x    var y       for i   0  i  lt  x length  i          if x charAt i                        y                  else               y   x charAt i           return y

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You need to wrap the forward slash to avoid cross browser issues or   commenting out   str    this that and if    var newstr   str replace      g   ForwardSlash

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Is this what you want    string with   in it  replace     g

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Without using regex  though I would only do this if the search string is user input    var str    Hello  world  this has two slashes    alert str split      join           alerts  Hello  world  this has two slashes

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