Question

Hey there, I’m trying to replace a

<blockquote>...</blockquote>

with

>> ...

This is my Code:

var testhtml = 'sdkjhfbs <blockquote>skldfjsfkjghbs\n sdjkfhb ksdbhv isl\n kdjbhdfgkj bs</blockquote>kdjfgnkdfj';
alert(blockquoteConvert(testhtml));

function blockquoteConvert(html) {
    return '>>' + html.
        replace(/<blockquote>([^]+)<\/blockquote>/gi,"$1").
        replace('/\n/','\n>> ');
}

But it doesn’t find the Linebreaks. (I checked with indexOf(‘\n’)).

How can I do this ?

Answer 1

Try it without the quotes:

replace(/\n/g,'\n>> ')

Now the delimiters are part of the literal regular expression declaration syntax and not part of the pattern itself.