How to remove //<![CDATA[ and end //]]> with javascript from string?
var title = "<![CDATA[A Survey of Applications of Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks]]>" ;
needs to become
var title = "A Survey of Applications of Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks";
How to do that?
You can use the String.prototype.replace method, like:
title = title.replace("<![CDATA[", "").replace("]]>", "");
This will replace each target substring with nothing. Note that this will only replace the first occurrence of each, and would require a regular expression if you want to remove all matches.
Reference:
<![CDATA[ ?You ought to be able to do this with a regex. Maybe something like this?:
var myString = "<![CDATA[A Survey of Applications of Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks]]>";
var myRegexp = /<!\[CDATA\[(.*)]]>/;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
alert(match[1]);
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString)[1];I suggest this wider way to remove leading and trailing CDATA stuff :
title.trim().replace(/^(\/\/\s*)?<!\[CDATA\[|(\/\/\s*)?\]\]>$/g, '')
It will also work if CDATA header and footer are commented.
The regular expresion /^(<!\[CDATA\[)|(]]>)$/gm worked for me without looping.
You must perform the OPPOSITE of what was originally done to the string to ENCODE it, which was this:-
mystr='<!CDATA[' + mystr.replaceAll(']]>',']]]]><![CDATA[>') + ']]>'
All the other answers on this page that suggest "replace" without using a loop are wrong.