Question

I’m trying to replace all commas with a comma and a space.

This is what I have tried:

all_boxes_values = all_boxes_values.replace(",", ", ");

// and...

all_boxes_values = all_boxes_values.replace(/,\\/g, ', *');

I tried the top one first but realised it only replaced one instance of the comma, so I tried the bottom one (from a previous S.O question) but cannot get it to work. There is a possibility that the string may not contain any commas in the first place.

Any ideas?

UPDATED

This is the function. I have added one of the below answers to this and it still doesn’t work. I now get a console error: TypeError: Object A A Gill has no method ‘replace’.

$('.name_boxes').live('click', function() {
    var all_boxes = $('.name_boxes');
    var all_boxes_values = []
    for (var i = 0; i < all_boxes.length; i++) {
        if (all_boxes[i].checked) {
            all_boxes_values.push(all_boxes[i].value)
        }
    }
all_boxes_values = all_boxes_values.replace(/,/g,", ");
alert(all_boxes_values);
});

Answer 1

You shouldn’t have the last two backslashes in your regular expression, and there is no reason for the *. The following works.

all_boxes_values = all_boxes_values.replace(/,/g,", ");