Question

I am not able to replace these smileys with javascript

: , >:O , >:(

I have used str replace function but it’s not working..I wanted to replace it with another string..Whether ti’s possible?

Code:

     var a =str.replace(">:(","");

And stop commenting that you need code..I have already said that I am using str replace !

Answer 1

One trick to replace all occurrences of a substring without regex is to use split and join:

str = str.split ('>:(').join ('some html');