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I need to replace a part of a string.

Because of database functionality, i need to replace all ' in the variables to \'. I tried the next script:

variable.replace("'", "\'");

but that is a javascript function, apparently not supported by Opus. Is there a easy way of doing this?

Opusscript is mainly limited to those functions found in Javascript 1.1, but there are usually workarounds for functions in later versions of Javascript.
You can achieve the desired result with the split and join string functions.

str = "A'B'C'D";

str2 = str.split("'").join("\\'");

this will give you an output of str2 = A\'B\'C\'D

cheers

Paul

if you prefer it packaged as a general "find and replace" function, use:

function editString(str,findThis,replaceWith){
return newString = str.split(findThis).join(replaceWith);
}

//usage::

string1="I am the black sheep of the family"

string2 = editString(string1,"black sheep","dark horse")

string2 will now contain the phrase "I am the dark horse of the family"

Paul

Hi Paul,


Thanks for your reply. That will do the trick. For the moment i solved it with a different usage of " and 's, but that wasn't my preffered method.
This will come in handy. Thanks!