Question

I did a search through the site, but it’s still not working.

var blah2 = JSON.stringify({foo: 123, bar: <x><y></y></x>, baz: 123});

this is what I tried:

blah2.replace(/[{}]/g, "");

this is what it the string comes out to:

got "{\"baz\":123,\"foo\":123}"

(i know this is probably a newb question, but this is my first time working with javascript and i just don’t know what i’m missing)

Answer 1

Javascript strings are immutable. When you call blah2.replace, you are not replacing something inside blah2, you are creating a new string. What you probably want is:

blah2 = blah2.replace(/[{}]/g, '');