<script language="javascript">
// the string we are going to operate on var inputstr="this is my long test string with the word long in it; hope that the regular expression does not take too LONG.";
// an empty string to hold the result var outputstr="";
// our regular expression var regex=/long/gi;
// run the regular expression to replace any match to our regular expression with the word short. outputstr=inputstr.replace(regex,"short");
// pop up the string, which should be //"this is my short test string with the word short in it; hope that the regular expression does not take too short." alert(outputstr);
</script> |