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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:43:46+00:00

What would be a good way to do this. I have a string with

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What would be a good way to do this. I have a string with lots of “&lt;” and &gt; and I want to replace them with < and >. So i wrote this: 

var str = &lt;/text&gt;&lt;word34212&gt;
var p = str.replace('\&lt\;','\<');
var m = p.replace('\&gt\;','\>');

but that’s just doing the first instance of each – and subsequent instances of &lt;/&gt; are not replaced. I considered first counting the instances of the &lt; and then looping and replacing one instance of the code on every iteration…and then doing the same for the &gt; but obviously this is quite long-winded.

Can anyone suggest a neater way to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To replace multiple occurances you use a regular expression, so that you can specify the global (g) flag:

    var m = str.replace(/&lt;/g,'<').replace(/&gt;/g,'>');
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