I would like to use .replace() function in JS to replace all occurencies of string "{5}".
I had no problems with letters in brackets but numbers just dont work if I call:
mystring.replace(/{\5}/g,'replaced') nothing happens. Please can you help me with right syntax?
It looks like you have a problem with escaping. I'm pretty sure \5 is a backreference. You should instead be escaping the curly braces and not the number.
'Something {5} another thing'.replace(/\{5\}/g, 'replaced'); // -> Something replaced another thing Additional Note: Just in case you're looking for a generalized string formatting solution, check out this SO question with some truly awesome answers.
Is there a special reason you are preceding the number with a backslash? If your intention is to match against the string "{5}", "{" and "}" are the special characters that should be escaped, not the character "5" itself!
According to MDN:
A backslash that precedes a non-special character indicates that the next character is special and is not to be interpreted literally. For example, a 'b' without a preceding '\' generally matches lowercase 'b's wherever they occur. But a '\b' by itself doesn't match any character; it forms the special word boundary character.
The following code would work:
var str = "foo{5}bar{5}"; var newStr = str.replace(/\{5\}/g, "_test_"); console.log(newStr); // logs "foo_test_bar_test_" Try this:
mystring.replace(/\{5\}/g,'replaced'); You need to escape the curly brackets\{ and \}.
DEMO
