Re: Regular Expression and $

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From: Dave_Saunders
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:56

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I think you need:

re = new RegExp("\\$Pos_x","gi")
MyString= MyString.replace(re , "!");

when you use a string to make a RegExp object that has the backslash as a real character because it is a JavaScript escape character too.

Dave

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