Question

Trying to replace a portion of a string with a “-” if it matches a string variable in AS3.

var re:RegExp = new RegExp(imageArray[j][1],"gi");
trace(imageArray[jTemp][2].replace(re,"-"));

imageArray[jTemp][2] is a string
imageArray[j][1] is a string as well

I’m not getting the result I expect. I would like trace above to return ‘permanentContainer-‘ Here are the traces for the above variables

permanentContainer-temporaryContainer-
temporaryContainer

Answer 1

var str:String = "permanentContainer-temporaryContainer-"
var pattern:RegExp = /-[(a-z)]+-/i;
var re:RegExp = new RegExp( "-^-$", "i");
trace( str.replace(pattern,"-"));

// traces
// permanentConta1iner-