Flash :: Replace Multiple Character In A String?

String, Character Replace Function, Comments Please
Ok, long story short, i need a way to replace characters throughout a whole string. What i am doing, is loading a big article that is inside an xml attribute (the blah="" tag thing). I am doing various things with the article, such as splitting it up to be in pages, ect.

My problem lies in the fact that xml hates html tags format.. as they seem to be the same thing basically, so what i am wanting is a way to replace a few key characters that html goes by.

In otherwords, i need to write stuff like <a href="asfunction:blah,blah">Link</a>, ect in an xml file. But since i dont see a way to do that, i am going to write it with different characters; Something XML is happy with. For example

Code:
(,)a href=(')asfunction:blah,blah(')(.)Link(,)/a(.)
Now i know that looks insanely weird, and i'll prob use dif characters, but what i am doing is replacing anything XML might not like (i cant remember if it doesent like " or not) with my own custom character.

Now to get to what this post is about, what do you think would be the best way to replace the characters? I may be missing some simple way around this, so please correct me if i am.

But what i plan on doing, is building a custom replace function with some String features. Say you want to replace all instances of (,) with < after loading the XML Node Attribute into a String. What i am going to do is make my function hold a Variable for completed string, temp string, and old string.

Apon the function being called, it takes a parameter of a string, searches via String.indexOf, for the first instance of (,). Once it finds an instance you log what number it starts at, lets say it starts at 51 characters in. It then takes characters 0-50, puts them in the finalized string, adds the replace character <, takes out the (,) from the front of the temp string, which leaves characters 54 and on. so then it does the same thing, searches via indexOf, for (,) and if it finds anything, it does it all over again.

Mostly i am wondering is this the best way to do this in flash? It will get the job done, but seeing as i am be searching big big strings, full blown articles, i want to make sure i wont bog it down completely. Or who knows, i dont know flash that well so there may be something built in to do this, i just didnt see it in "String".

Thanks to any comments, and hopefully you understand what i am trying to say lol.

Replace Character
hi,

i need to replace a character in a text field.

so if a text field reads berty # bassett i would like to replace the # with a ~ to read berty ~ bassett

any ideas?

tnx

Replace Character
the data comes from the database but i want to change all the B's to the figure 8 because of the crappy fint im using.

i know theres bound to be sometihng like: (link is the field)

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_parent.link = _parent.link.toUpperCase();
}

to convert everything to uppercase?

anyone

Replace Character
hi, i searched the forums, found some similar threads, but i need something else.

i need to change the character with another character that i know its unicode.

i mean,

user writes "ab@cd" into an input text, but when the user press "@" i want to replace it with "Ş" which is a latin character.

i hope i could explain my problem.

How Do I Do A Substring Or Character Replace In Variable?
I am loading an external veriable & I need to replace one or more characters within the string that loads from within flash. I suspect i have to use charAt and loop through each character or something, but i'm not sure how that's done.

So say I want to replace *all* instances of the character "@" in the variable I have just loaded with another character = "!" (or whatever).

I can also see that I might like to change whole words = eg *all* instance of the word "foo" change to "blah".

Any ideas or code fragments appreciated.

[F8] Replace Special Character Loaded From An XML
I am loading data in from a aspx generated XML. The problem is that special characters are coming in as ' " and so on. I tried adding cddata tags to the xml, and I also tried rendering the dynamic text fields as HTML. No luck. So as a quick fix I wrote a complicated function (below), but now there's other characters that need to be replaced and I am looking for a better solution. Any ideas?

Code:

//Check Quotationmarks
quot = String.fromCharCode(34);
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;

function CorrectQuoteChar() {
if (this.CharCheck.lastIndexOf(""")<>-1) {
part1 = this.CharCheck.substr(0, this.CharCheck.indexOf("""));
part2 = this.CharCheck.substr(this.CharCheck.indexOf(""")+6);
question01.text = part1+quot+part2;
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;
VerifyQuoteChar();
} else {
CorrectChar();
}
}

function VerifyQuoteChar() {
if (this.CharCheck.lastIndexOf(""")<>-1) {
part3 = this.CharCheck.substr(0, this.CharCheck.indexOf("""));
part4 = this.CharCheck.substr(this.CharCheck.indexOf(""")+6);
question01.text = part3+quot+part4;
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;
CorrectQuoteChar();
} else {
CorrectChar();
}
}

//Check Apos
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;

function CorrectChar() {
if (this.CharCheck.lastIndexOf("'")<>-1) {
part1 = this.CharCheck.substr(0, this.CharCheck.indexOf("'"));
part2 = this.CharCheck.substr(this.CharCheck.indexOf("'")+6);
question01.text = part1+"'"+part2;
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;
VerifyChar();
}
}

function VerifyChar() {
if (this.CharCheck.lastIndexOf("'")<>-1) {
part3 = this.CharCheck.substr(0, this.CharCheck.indexOf("'"));
part4 = this.CharCheck.substr(this.CharCheck.indexOf("'")+6);
question01.text = part3+"'"+part4;
this.CharCheck = this.question01.text;
CorrectChar();
}
}

CorrectQuoteChar();

String Replace Help
Hello guys

I am trying to set text that it loaded into flash to disply x amount of characters like:
blah blah blah blah = blah blah...

I can do this with php

PHP Code:

$topic = substr($user['topic'], 0, 25)."...";

How would i do it with flash??

I had a look i the AS dictionary and found this:
code: myString.substr(start, [length])
but i am still a little bit lost.

Cheers
Paul

Replace String
how can i replace all occurrences of the search string in dynamic text field with the replacement string??

like "str_replace" in PHP..

String Replace
Hello all

Is there an actionscript command which will replace part of a string, similar to the str_replace command in php?

thanks for any help

String.replace()
theres a replace method in the string class, but its not documented in the actionscript 2.0 reference on devnet. The syntax is pretty self explanatory looking at the method in the class in the first run folder:

Code:
function replace( re:String, repl:String ):String; // Central API
It doesnt seem to work

Code:
var test:String = "testerosa";
trace(test.replace("test", "tits"));
outputs undefined in flash 8 using player 8 (the method is in the flash player 7 string class as well)

How To Replace String?
How do i replace string with string?(i forgot how to do the split and join)
How do i replace string with image?

String Replace
Hello, I've been just starting on actionscript 2.0 for some things I want to get done. Currently, the data that I receieve is sent such as
str = "/'Hello/&quot";

What I want to do is to make a string replace that would allow me to change the backslashes, basicly like phps' stripslash. As well as probably if I figure that out, I can change &quot to ".

Could anyone guide me to a correct location on how to do this? I've tried a couple examples with no luck for stripping backslashes, any help, guides, etc would be great.

Thanks!

String.replace()
Hi guys,
Ok I have an input text field with htmlText set to false.
Now, I want to grab data from the text field but I want to convert line breaks to " ". I used this code...

Code:
textDescription.text.replace("
", " ");
Which works fine for the first line break but any breaks after that aren't replaced. Any ideas?

String Replace
Hi!
I want to replace "bad characters" in a text string received from an XML document but the replaced text seems to be undefined inside the for loop.

ActionScript Code:
for ( var i:Number = 0; i < l; i++ )
{
String.prototype.replace = function(s, z) { return unescape(escape(this).split(s).join(z)); };
cl.txt_text.html = true;
cl.txt_text.htmlText = text.replace("å", "å");
}

String.replace(); Help
I have a string: "this is some test®"

And I need to to replace ® with the actual symbol. I have tried everything to get str.replace to replace this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Can anyone help me out?

String.replace
Who's got the bomb digity string utilities class....... yea?

I could sure use a string.replace().

Thanks for your MIND!

How Do I Replace Text In A String?
I'm importing a block of text from a ColdFusion page into a Flash movie. All the double quotes (") in the text are currently set as the HTML character:

Code:
"
.

Basically, I want Flash to replace all instances of
Code:
"
. with an actual ("). How can you do this in Flash?

Thanks!
[Edited by tenetarns on 08-17-2002 at 11:25 AM]

Replace Parts Of A String
I´ve got a string like "A little bird" but I need a string without " " (e.g. "A_little_bird").
Anybody an idea?

Replace Part Of A String
I have a sting which holds HTML formatted data passed into a variable and I need to replace an HTML tag in that string with a flash recognisable . Is there a way I can check the string and swap them over?

.....thanks for any help.

String Search And Replace
Example:
astr = "Hello everyone"

(search string for all occurences of "everyone" and replace with "fred")
output:

astr = "Hello Fred"

How can I do this?

String Replace In Flash
How to replace loaded var. value like this one
"test1" into "test2" ?

Let me explain this a little bit, when I load variable I get this value
"test1"
I need something that`ll replace it to this variable value
"test2"

Replace Text In String
Hi, may I know any code that can be used to replace a character in a string of text? I can use 'indexof' to find the correct character index, but I need to replace it with a new charcater.. can anyone give me some guide??

Thanks..

String Replace Regexp ?
Hi !

I would like to replace in a htmlText all the <IMG SRC="...."> tags with <A HREF="..."><IMG SRC="...."></A>

is there an easy way of doing this ?

Thanks

Rodrigo

How Do I Replace String During Input?
How do i replace selected text during input?

I have a multiline input box, now assume while typing in it, the user selects some text and then clicks on a button nearby, on click, i want to replace the selected text, with the tagged version of the text(wrap it in tags)! How can i do this?

String.replace Using RegEx Help
Let's say that I have a block of text like the following. "The blah system is the perfect system to use".

I am using string.replace searching for "blah system" because that needs to be capitalized correctly to where all instances of it should be "BLAH SYSTEM". Here is the code I am using.

ActionScript Code:
tempStr.replace(/blah system/gi,"BLAH SYSTEM");

However, using the example above I end up with "The BLAH SYSTEM is the perfect SYSTEM to use". So it's capitalizing the word system even when it's not preceeded by blah. I don't know much about using RegEx but is there a way to make it only replace those words as a combined string?

Replace String With MovieClip
Now this seems farely simple. But, I'm struggling to find resources on this topic.

It will need to work similar to a chat application. Finding and replacing ": )" with .

Obviously you cant place a MovieClip inside a Dynamic TextField, but will need to atleast line up and add space needed to adjust the right side of the string.

Now, to be able to work out the space and width requirements. Would I need to be using TextLineMetrics (AS3)?

If anyone can point me in the right direction... or even better show me something that works? I'd be very grateful.

Kieran

Search And Replace In A String
Hi Reader,

I have a text field and I want to replace some of the words in it with others. For example I could have.

The red fox jumped over the brown fence, red again.

And I want to replace all the "red" with purple. Is there a simple flash function for this? If so I have been unable to find it.

Any help will be great.

Thanks

Leah

Replace Part Of A String?
I need to replace part of a string and I'm not sure of the best method... For example, I want to replace the "and" in this string:

"Run and Jump"

with and ampersand (&), so the string is now:

"Run & Jump"

I was told to use split and join, but that returns errors because it's not an array?

Please help!

Thanks,

Eddie

String Replace Functions
Per another user's request...(this was previously posted in the Flash 8 area)...
And I have [updated], tested and confirmed that replaceMultiple will work correctly. ( i discovered a misspelling in the previous version).

i have also included method speed information, for those nuts (like myself) that are concerned about processing speed.

replace is recursive, so it is considered Order 1 (uber fast)
replaceMutiple is a single loop, considered Order n (a little slower--but if you're working with a fixed set of data, you're good to go!)

Code:
/**
* I took out the original version of this function i posted because I realized the snippets sticky had a better way to do this. (plus, this is easier to read)
* this version, however, assumes you want the actual String prototype to modify its contents -- use as needed
* @param String search
* @param String replace
* @return String
*/
String.prototype.replace = function(search:String, replace:String):String {
this = this.split(search).join(replace);
return this;
}

/**
* Replaces characters within a string
* replace(Array, string|char)
* Method Speed: n
* @param Array instances
* @param String|char replacement
* @return string
*/
String.prototype.replaceMultiple = function(instances, replacement) {
for(i=0;i<instances.length;i++)
this = this.replace(instances[i],replacement);
return this;
}

don't forget these depend on some code found in the Kirupa tutorial 'bestof_search' which scans XML files

Code:
/*
* contains()
* @param String
* @return int
*/
String.prototype.contains = function(searchString){
return (this.indexOf(searchString) != -1);
}
/**
* contains()
* @param String searchvalue
* @return bool
*/
Array.prototype.contains = function(searchValue){
var i = this.length;
while(i--) if (this[i] == searchValue) return true;
return false;
}

with the aforementioned code and the code below, you can build a tiny xml search engine...which i am currently developing for an application

Code:
/**
* GetKeyWords()
* Method Speed: Order n
* Method Type: loop
* @param String query
* @return String[]
*/
GetKeyWords = function(query) {
var keys= [];
// the next two lines could be combined, but it's just too hard to read; so they're split up like good like codelings
query = query.replaceMultiple(punctuation,' '); // spaces are our delimiter, (this could be customized in the method signature, but I don't think it would be any easier to use
var captured = query.toLowerCase().split(' '); // and as such, we will use them to break up our query into keywords
for(i=0;i<captured.length;i++)
if(!isIgnoredWord(captured[i], ignoredWords)) keys.push(captured[i]);
return keys;
}
/**
* isIgnoredWord(str, array)
* Method Speed: Order 1
* @param String str
* @param Array wordList
* @return bool
*/
isIgnoredWord = function(str, wordList) {
if(str.length<3) return true;
return wordList.contains(str.toLowerCase());
}

AS3 RegExp And String.replace
This is an AS3 question (I forgot to put it in the title).

When using the replace method with a regex pattern, is there anyway to have the replace method start back at the beginning of the string after it has found a match.

For example:

ActionScript Code:
var r:RegExp = /1a1/g;var s:String = "1a1a1";trace(s.replace(r, "1")); //1a1

The replace method returns 1a1, which also matches the regex pattern but doesn't get replaced with 1. What I assume happens is that the replace method starts searching the string again after the index of the last replaced match. So, in this case, it will only see a1 after the first replace which doesn't match the pattern.

I was thinking that I might have to just call the replace method recursively until there are no more matches left, but I was hoping that there would be a better way.

Thanks for any help

[AS3] Replace Items In A String
I have been working on this all day and cannot seem to find a solution. I am trying to build a function where I can pass in a string and as many parameters as I want. The parameters that I am passing in will replace the #1 and #2 in the url string. This needs to be dynamic so that if I am passing in #1 - #20, I just need to add in the parameters to my ... rest array and it will automatically replace and return the correct url to me.

So far I have a reg exp that finds the patterns that I am looking for and I can replace the first parameter. But I need a way to loop through all the params and change them all. That is where I am stuck on because in string.replace( pattern, .... ) I cannot add in rest[i] as my repl:Object. I tried putting it into a loop but that just ends up replacing #1 and #2 with the first item in my rest array.

I don't have to use reg exp but it just seems like the best way, feel free to suggest other methods.

ActionScript Code:
var myURL:String = "http://www.foo.com.aspx?SessionID=#1&lpn=#2";

replaceItems( myURL, "FormPage", "ListPage" );

function replaceItems( string:String, ... rest ):String
{
var pattern:RegExp = /[#][0-9]/g;

// I can't seem to find a way to make it rest[i] so that it will replace #1 and #2 with rest[0] and rest[1].
return( string.replace( pattern, rest[0] );
}

Search And Replace String Help
ok, here's my problem. I have html being sent back to my flash file from a database. I wisht to display the data rendered as HTML, but there is a slight snag!

The data I am getting has NO "" quote marks in the font tags, and flash will not render it. Flash understands but NOT it will not render.

I have a nifty script I found that will replace things but the problem is that is will only replace the same exact item.

Heres what I mean:

Code:

notes = "hellohello"
//
function searchAndReplace(holder, searchfor, replacement) {
temparray = holder.split(searchfor);
holder = temparray.join(replacement);
return (holder);
}
//
notes = searchAndReplace(notes, "color=#"+notes.substr(notes.indexOf("color=#")+7, 6), "color="#"+notes.substr(notes.indexOf("color=#")+7, 6)+""");
//
trace(notes);

output: hellohello

Notice in the output the first set of font tags is fine, it put in the quote marks where they were supposed to be, but the 2nd set of font tags is not exctly like the first set, so it is not replaced. I need a way to find the "color=" string, skip ahead 7 spaces and attach a quote mark " to the end making it color="#??????" but I'm not sure how to do this.

Please some one help me.

Thanks in advance.
Ragscoon

String Replace Function In Flash 5...
Hi,

Has anyone written a string replace function in Flash 5? If so any chance of posting the actionscript for it? Have had an absolute ball-ache trying to get the one I'm doing to work!

Cheers,

Ears

Find And Replace Characters In String...
(F5)
What's the best way to find and replace a certain character from within a string, that I got from user input ?

say i want to replace all "ä" with ae and vice versa.

thanks

String Parse/search & Replace Help...
Im looking for a better way to do the following:

take a string (variable), and search it for key 'words' (elements) and replace them with another...

doing it 1 word at a time seems simple enough:

PHP Code:

function emailParse(targetString, searchFor, replaceWith) { trace("BEFORE: " + targetString); tempArray = targetString.split(searchFor); targetString = tempArray.join(replaceWith); trace("AFTER: " + targetString);}var myString:String = "The quick sliver fox jumped over the lazy brown dog";emailParse(myString, "brown", "orange");

however, if I wanted to, say, parse out several 'tags/elements', and grab the sub string/characters between these elements.. I guess Im at a loss for an efficient way of doing so:

PHP Code:

function emailParse(targetString, searchFor, replaceWith) { trace("BEFORE: " + targetString); tempArray = targetString.split(searchFor); targetString = tempArray.join(replaceWith); trace("AFTER: " + targetString);}var myString:String = "hey my email address is: [ email ]myemail@domain.com[ /email ], dont forget it.";emailParse(myString, "[ email ]", "<a href ='myemail@domain.com'>");

Id like to not only replace the [ email ] & [ /email ] tags but also grab the characters in between them and use it in the [ email ] tag replacement..

make sense?

any ideas or suggestions on logic or approach are appreciated.

Thanks

update:

this sorta works:

PHP Code:

function emailParse(targetString, searchFor, replaceWith) { trace("BEFORE: " + targetString); //find string between tags var openEmailPos:Number = targetString.indexOf("[email]"); var closeEmailPos:Number = targetString.indexOf("[/email]"); var tempEmail:String = targetString.substring(openEmailPos+7, closeEmailPos); tempArray = targetString.split(searchFor); targetString = tempArray.join(replaceWith+tempEmail+"'>"); trace("AFTER: " + targetString);}var myString:String = "hey my email address is: [email]myemail@domain.com[/email], dont forget it.";emailParse(myString, "[email]", "<a href='");

but I guess Id like something more efficient? something that can do both tags? in the same function perhaps.. (guess I'll go back and fiddle with it)

this seems to work as well handling both tags and the characters in between:

PHP Code:

function emailParse(targetString, searchOpen, replaceOpen, searchClose, replaceClose) { //find string between tags var openEmailPos:Number = targetString.indexOf("[email]"); var closeEmailPos:Number = targetString.indexOf("[/email]"); var tempEmail:String = targetString.substring(openEmailPos+7, closeEmailPos); tempArray = targetString.split(searchOpen); targetString = tempArray.join(replaceOpen+tempEmail+"'>"); tempArray = targetString.split(searchClose); targetString = tempArray.join(replaceClose); trace("AFTER: " + targetString);}var myString:String = "hey my email address is: [email]myemail@domain.com[/email], dont forget my old email address as well: [email]myemail2@domain.com[/email].";emailParse(myString, "[email]", "<a href='", "[/email]", "</a>");

still open to suggestions if there is a better, more efficient way of course.

thanks

String.replace() Not Working Properly...
I'm using this to remove punctuation:

ActionScript Code:
var bareString1:String = new String(_textsArray[i].toLowerCase());
var bareString2:String = bareString1.replace("-", " ");
var bareString3:String = bareString2.replace(".", "");
var bareString4:String = bareString3.replace(",", "");
trace(bareString1);
trace(bareString2);
trace(bareString3);
trace(bareString4);

...but it doesn't work completely:

and if you have low self-esteem, hang up, all our operators are too busy to talk to you.
and if you have low self esteem, hang up, all our operators are too busy to talk to you.
and if you have low self esteem, hang up, all our operators are too busy to talk to you
and if you have low self esteem hang up, all our operators are too busy to talk to you

Why? What's going on?

I've tried it as a RegExp but I still get the same.

Help With RegEx On String.replace() Not Working.
I have a regular expression that finds all of the XML tags in a string. So everything between "<>". I used Rubular.com to validate that it works as expected.

The goal is to change the case of the XML from UPPERCASE to lowercase tags in a string before creating a new XML object with it.

So I used the RegExp with String.Replace(regex,function), i also added the /ig switch, but it's not working. the string remains the same.

Code:
private function clickHandler(e:Event):void
{
var str:String = "<RECORDS TRANSACTION_ID="1000149"><RECORD><ID>251801</ID><PLS>1</PLS><WHO>MIKE</WHO><TITLE>TEST FOR</TITLE></RECORD><RECORD><ID>187001</ID><PLS>1</PLS><WHO>MIKE</WHO><TITLE>WAHT</TITLE></RECORD><RECORD><ID>188001</ID><PLS>1</PLS><WHO>MIKE</WHO><TITLE>NEWRECORD FOR DEMONSTRATION</TITLE></RECORD><RECORD><ID>199801</ID><PLS>1</PLS><WHO>MIKE</WHO><TITLE>NEW FOR DEMO 2</TITLE></RECORD><RECORD><ID>255801</ID><PLS>1</PLS><WHO>MIKE</WHO><TITLE>TEST 123</TITLE></RECORD></RECORDS>"
str.replace("(<.[^(><.)]+>/ig)",toLowerCase);
}

private function toLowerCase(match:String, match1:String, index:int, input:String):String
{
return match.toLowerCase();
}
Any help is appreciated.

Loop Through String, Replace Hyphens
How should I go about looping through a string and replacing all "-" with "*"?

Find And Replace Characters In String?
Hello.
Checked google, but only found some outdated,homemade functions.
Is there no other way to Find char in a string and replace it?
the shortest function i found was about 30 Lines long.

[MX04] String Search & Replace With TextFormat?
Good morning all,

I am attempting to simplify things further to speed development, so here goes.

Below is a script I picked up sometime back, and it has served me well. However, I would now like to extend it by having the new text, in this case 'Betty Rubble.....' assigned the color 'blue' without having to manually identfy it's location in the string (7, 35, blue) as I am no doing by using the tip I picked up yesterday--it is the last line of the script below.

Any ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Code:

String.prototype.searchReplace = function(find, replace) {
return this.split(find).join(replace);
};
blue = new TextFormat();
blue.color = 0x0000FF;
var myString = "This is Fred Flinstone at the Bedrock Inn.";
base.text = myString;
trace(myString);
btn.onRelease = function() {
var newString = myString.searchReplace("Fred Flinstone", "Betty Rubble, Barney's wife,");
trace(newString);
base.text = newString;
trace(newString);

base.setTextFormat(7, 35, blue);
};

Replace Curly Quotes In String With Straight Ones
Hi folks,

I've been searching for some code to find all the curly quote marks in a string, and convert them to their straight equivalents - the pixel font I'm using doesn't have the curly ones!

“ -> "
” -> "
‘ -> '
’ -> '

Can anyone advise on this?

Thanks for your time

3stripe

Search And Replace A String Value In External File?
So I've searched around and found a couple of threads that gave me some pointers on how to replace certain values within a variable, but I can't find any help on how to replace a string from an external file.

The reason I'm asking is so I can load external text files created from a blogging platform and if someone should happen to type in a "&" in their entry it won't screw up the entire post.

So I'm wondering if there is a way to do a search and replace for "&" symbols and replace them with the correct "%26" value so they can be used within the text file.

Any ideas?

Find And Replace Text In A String Variable
I want to be able to find and replace text within a flash variable

example:

Code:
text = "the |bold|cat|/bold| sat on the mat";
change to:

Code:
text = "the cat sat on the mat";
is this possible?
if so do you know of any documentation?

String Replace Via Actionscript, Doesn't Work...
Since there is no built-in string replace function for flash and actionscript, so I did the user defined function to take care of that. The user defined function is what I found from the the google search.

Code:

function strReplace(thisStr,what,byWhat) {
while (thisStr.indexOf(what)>-1) {
var tmp = thisStr.split(what);
thisStr = tmp.join(byWhat);
}
return (thisStr);
}

It was working great until it goes into an infinite loop when the parameters was used in strReplace() function like this...

Code:

test = strReplace(strData,"McDonald","<a href='blah blah'>McDonald</a>");

Then I found that in the function code above which showed that the loop that never reached the end of the string as it would start a new loop again once it is finished. So, I did a different function instead..

Code:

function strReplace(thisStr,what,byWhat){
var counter=0;

while (counter<thisStr.length) {
var startPos = thisStr.indexOf(what, counter);

if (startPos == -1) {
break;
} else {
var before=thisStr.substr(0,startPos)
var after=thisStr.substr(startPos+what.length,thisStr.length)
thisStr=before+byWhat+after
var counter=before.length+replace.length
}
}
return thisStr;
}

So, I tried it again and it still go into an infiinite loop. So, what did I do wrong? Need someone with a fresh eyes to see the codes...

Thanks,
FletchSOD