Question

I have a paragraph that currently has C:\

How can I use jQuery to change it to be C:*

Answer 1

Careful! JavaScript’s string.replace doesn’t behave the same as other languages. It will only replace one occurrence of the matched string. If you want to do a global search-and-replace you have to use a RegExp object so you can set the g flag:

el.text(el.text().replace(/C:\\/g, 'C:*'));

An alternative to regexcersizing the replace operation (especially useful when you have an arbitrary string to replace that might contain regex-special characters), is the JS split-and-join replacement idiom:

el.text(el.text().split('C:\\').join('C:*'));