how to replace all using regexp (javascript)

Question

var text = "&#39;Hello&#39;World&#39;&#39;&#39;";

how to replace all ' and Hello and World to '

result = "'''''''"

ase · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-29 22:21:58Z

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text.replace(/&#39;|Hello|World/g, "'")

The g is for global, it wont stop at the first match but continue matching as many times as possible.

answered Aug 29, 2010 at 22:16

ase

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Do you mean that you want to replace ', Hello, World with " instead of '? Change the last argument to "\"".