How to replace characters in text field

[Michael Bachme1]

I have a requirement that any [spaces] in a text field in a Service Catalog item be replaced with semi-colons (;).   What's the best way to do this?

[Deepak Kumar5 · Accepted solution]

Use this one in onSubmit client script. not sure why it is throwing error in onChange.

function onSubmit() {

    //Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below

    var str = g_form.getValue('field_name');

  var res = str.replace(/ /g, ";");

g_form.setValue('field_name',res);

}

[Michael Bachme1]

It's working now. I missed the additional var line.

How do you had multiple replacements? I'd like to also replace carriage returns with a semi-colon.

[Abhinay Erra]

Hi michael.bachmeyer

Here you go

var str = g_form.getValue('field_name').toString();

g_form.setValue('field_name',str.replace(/\s/g, ";"));

[Michael Bachme1]

That did it, thanks!

[Abhinay Erra]

Never use / / as the pattern for space. Always used \s meta character to find all the white spaces.