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I need a regular expression that replaces the greater than and less than symbol on a string
i already tried
var regEx = "s/</</g;s/>/>/g"
var testString = "<test>"
alert(testString.replace(regEx,"*"))
My first time to use it please go easy on me :) Thanks
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To match a character having special meaning in regex, you need to use a escape sequence prefix with a backslash ( \ ). E.g., \. matches "." ; regex \+ matches "+" ; and regex \( matches "(" .
Basically (0+1)* mathes any sequence of ones and zeroes. So, in your example (0+1)*1(0+1)* should match any sequence that has 1. It would not match 000 , but it would match 010 , 1 , 111 etc. (0+1) means 0 OR 1.
In regular expressions, the period ( . , also called "dot") is the wildcard pattern which matches any single character. Combined with the asterisk operator . * it will match any number of any characters.
You can use regEx | like
var regEx = /<|>/g;
var testString = "<test>"
alert(testString.replace(regEx,"*"))
Fiddle
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