Question

How to replace charecter “/” to “-” from string using jquery.

I want as below:

06/01/2013 to 06-01-2013

In My Case:

I am taking a value from input box

<input id="from-date" value="06/01/2013" name="from-date"/>

fdate = $("#from-date").val();
fdate.replace('/','-');
console.log(fdate);

but it return same string(06/01/2013).

Answer 1

You don’t need jQuery but the standard replace function with the proper regex syntax :

fdate = fdate.replace(/\//g, '-');

Note that replace doesn’t change the string you pass but returns a new one. Note also you need to pass the g flag so that all occurrences are replaced.