String replace all occurance of \" , "{ and "}

[deepak50]

Hi ,
I have to replace all occurances of  \" , "{ and "} from response of API. I am using replaceAll function of string as below but it is not working

var str2=responseBody.toString().replaceAll('\"','"');
var str3=str2.replaceAll('"{','{');
var str4=str3.replaceAll('"}','}');

This is not replacing these char , Please let me know how can we replace all chars as required.

Thanks
Deepak

[James Fricker]

Yes, but the ECMAScript standard allows the use of regexp in the first argument of replaceAll. The SN implementation will accept a regexp but converts it to a string, and does not throw any errors. This leads to weird behaviours. That is a bug.

Plus there is an OOTB script includes that runs in the global scope and uses replaceAll 4 times with a regexp in the first argument. Which is never going to work.

So perhaps SN should practise what they preach.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

what is not getting replaced? the \ character?

Regards
Ankur

[deepak50]

i need to replace as below:

\" -->"
"{--> {
"}-->}

[Ankur Bawiskar]

so what is not getting replaced?

[Hitoshi Ozawa · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepak,

Can't replace backslash because it's an escape character. Backslash and the next character will be treated as 1 character in JavaScript. This is JavaScript specification.