Question

i want to read an html file by using jquery get function, replace some characters then display result. I wrote get function and can replace the text. There are many rows in the table. All data inside rows displayed as text. Rows are ended with space; so iwant to replace ” ;” characters for every row. But the code below just replace the characters for the first row. How can i replace all ” ;” characters for all rows?

$.ajax({
        url: 'http://url',
            type: 'GET',
            success: function(data) {
            var def = $(data).find('tbody#div.divWord').html();

                $('#def').append('<p><b>' + word + '</b>:' + def + '</p>');

                $("div").each(function() {
                    var text = $(this).text();
                    text = text.replace("  ;", "@");
                    $(this).text(text);
                });

            },
            error: function(data) {
                alert('error'); 
            }
        });

Answer 1

the Replace function only matches the first result by default.

If you want to replace every occurence, you have to take a regular expression and set the “global flag”:

text = text.replace(/ ;/g, "@");

or

text = text.replace(/\s;/g, "@");

where \s matches Whitespace Characters.

or

text = text.replace(new RegExp(" ;","g"),"@");