Javascript replace globally with regex

Question

I have special characters in my XML and i am using Javascript function to replace it. I have found global search to replace in all my tags as.

 var res = outputText.replace(/&/g,"&amp;");

But i also want to replace </Product> tag with <btn>Click NOW</btn></Product>

How can i replace this i am trying like

res = res.replace(/</Product>/g,"<btn>Click  NOW</btn></Product>");

But it is giving me error invalid regular expression flag P

gdoron · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-01 23:02:03Z

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You need to escape the / with \:

res = res.replace(/<\/Product>/g,"<btn>Click  NOW</btn></Product>"); 
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answered Oct 1, 2014 at 23:02

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gdoron · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-01 23:03:39Z

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You have to scape the / before the P

/<\/P

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answered Oct 1, 2014 at 23:02

Leo Nomdedeu

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You have to have a line break so the formatting will kick in.

Thanks. It took me some try&error tests to figure it out, hehe