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This seems so simple and trivial but it is not working. Here is my javascript:

var url = "/computers/";
console.log(url);
url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
console.log(url);

And here is the output in my browsers console:

/computers/
/computers/

As you can see nothing changes. As you can tell from the code I'm trying to replace the forward slashes with spaces. What am I doing wrong?

Jonathan Leffler
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asked Jun 2, 2012 at 14:48
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url = url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
answered Jun 2, 2012 at 14:49
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man I feel a bit dumb. Thanks for that.
LoL. Epic. I just ran into this same issue and this answer saved me from emailing Brendan Eich to tell him that JS replace doesn't work :)
@greatwitenorth ᄏᄏᄏᄏ did the same mistake.
Gosh, was fighting for an hour with that. Feeling dumb as hell now. Thanks for saving me!
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Nothing changes because you're not assigning the result of the replacement to a variable. Add url = url.replace()

answered Jun 2, 2012 at 14:51

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url.replace(/\//gi, " "); returns the resulting string (in javascript you can't modify an existing string), you are not assigning it to anything

assign it like so:

url = url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
answered Jun 2, 2012 at 14:51

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