Question

I’m stuck on the.replace function.
I have a gallery, previewing thumbnails through this URL standard:

/uploads/admin/mcith/mcith_1157936397041.jpg

I want the URLs to be like this:

/uploads/admin/1157936397041.jpg

removing the mcith/mcith part.

I’ve done a small .replace script and got pretty close, but got stuck with the slashes and underscores.

Here’s what I got:

v = $(this).attr("src").replace(/mcith/g,'');
alert(v);

The alert prints this:

/uploads/admin//_1157936397041.jpg

Any pointers are greatly appreciated! 🙂

Answer 1

Some characters have a special meaning inside those regular expressions. These characters need to be escaped by preceding them with a backslash

v = $(this).attr("src").replace(/mcith\/mcith_/g,''); alert(v);