Question

I’m sure somebody will be able to help me on this; I’m trying to replace 🙂 with the word smiley – The following works but only replaces the first string:

var string = "hello :)";

string = string.replace(":)", "smiley");

I tried this but it won’t work:

var string = "hello :)";

string = string.replace(/:)/g, "smiley");

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You’re on the right track with your second example, but the /.../g notation creates a regular expression, and ) has a special meaning in a regular expression; you need to “quote” or “escape” it with a backslash:

string = string.replace(/:\)/g, "smiley");