replace - JavaScript Vision

Replaces each character expression in a string that matches a string in a second character expression with the corresponding string in a third character expression.

Syntax

JSV_replace(expS1, expS2, expS3)

Prototype

expS1.replace(expS2, expS3)

Returns

Returns the string expS1, with every occurrence of substring expS2 replaced by expS3. If expS3 is not specified, all occurrences of expS2 are removed. If neither expS2 nor expS3 are specified, Replace returns null.

Parameters

The replace function uses the following arguments.

Argument	Description
expS1	The string that is to be evaluated.
expS2	The string that is to be replaced.
expS3	The string that replaces the string found.

Remarks

n/a

Dependencies

JSV_isEmpty, JSV_stripString

Example

The following lines of code


var testString1 = "Quiet feet make little noise on sleek ice", testString2 = "e", testString3 = "77";
document.write( "Replacing " + testString2.bold() + 
    " with " +
    testString3.bold() +
    " in " +
    testString1.bold() +
    " results in " +
    JSV_replace(testString1,testString2,testString3).bold() );

produce