Question

var newString = someString.replace(/\n/, '#');

Works great, when i do an alert;

alert(newString);

It appears as this:

"Firstline
#Secondline
#ThirdLine"

I wish for it to display:

"Firstline#SecondLine#Thirdline"

This is screwing up my other coding!

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Some OS have \r\n for newlines. So, add an optional carriage return character to the RegExp. Also, add a global flag to your RegExp if you want to replace all occurrences:

var newString = someString.replace(/\r?\n/g, '#');