replace all occurrences in a string [duplicate]

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Fastest method to replace all instances of a character in a string

How can you replace all occurrences found in a string?

If you want to replace all the newline characters (\n) in a string..

This will only replace the first occurrence of newline

str.replace(/\\n/, '<br />'); 

I cant figure out how to do the trick?

Answer 1

Use the global flag.

str.replace(/\n/g, '<br />'); 

Answer 2

Brighams answer uses literal regexp.

Solution with a Regex object.

var regex = new RegExp('\n', 'g'); text = text.replace(regex, '<br />'); 

TRY IT HERE : JSFiddle Working Example