Inline Regular Expressions in JavaScript

Question

I am trying to replace all occurrences of a character in a string. This works when I use the RegExp() object to create the regular expression :

var str = "a-b-c-d";

var regex = new RegExp('\-','g');

str.replace(regex,'@');

So this works and I get "a@b@c@d".

What if I want to use an inline regular expression , say:

str.replace("/\-/g",'@')

it does not work. How do I do this without using RegExp();

xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-27 06:21:11Z

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Remove the quotes (Regex literal not string literal):

str.replace(/\-/g,'@')

answered Jun 27, 2014 at 6:21

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