Change special characters in a string

[wintzell]

Hey all, kind of newb on this and hoping to get some help!

I want to change a specific character in a string.
"C:\Program\textfile.txt"
to
"C:/Program/textfile.txt"

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance

[flashead]

Well, I've never come across this problem before.

Normaly I'd say to do this:var str_A = "C:\Program\textfile.txt";
var str_B = str_A.split("\").join("/");

But it seems the slash escapes the quotes. So you need to escape the slash with a slash in the original string:var str_A = "C:\\Program\\textfile.txt";

and then use the above code to replace the "\\" with "/",
So you end up with:var str_A = "C:\\Program\\textfile.txt";
var str_B = str_A.split("\\").join("/");
trace( str_B );

Hopefully adding those extra slashes is an option for you, otherwise I don't know how else to tackle this one.

[wintzell]

Thank you very much for your help but I'm afraid I can't change the "str_A" data since it comes from a third party projector...

Anyone else know how to perhaps change the "/" into "//"? Or any other solution for this problem?

[wintzell]

Seems like a " " made it work. . .?

var str_A = "C:\Program\textfile.txt";
var str_B = str_A.split("\ ").join("/");

It works fine now! Tnx for the help!

[flashead]

When I trace 'str_B' with your code it gives me:

C:/rogram extfile.txt

[wintzell]

When I trace 'str_B' with your code it gives me:

C:/rogram extfile.txt


Okey, that's very wierd, Cause I get it C:/Program/textfile.txt ... Maybe it's because I use Screenweaver?

[Xeef]

what's even more wierd

in flash seams to by NO way to do that :p

woud realy like to see if somebody can do it !!!

[flashead]

Ok, yeah part of that is that Flash's output renders \p and \t as tags i guess.
so maybe just adding that space is all you need to do... if it works it works.

Without the space you just end up with errors in Flash.str_A.split("\");
Gives you: "String literal was not properly terminated"

[Xeef]

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=435285#post435285

[tocoinaphrase]

Hey all, kind of newb on this and hoping to get some help!

I want to change a specific character in a string.
"C:\Program\textfile.txt"
to
"C:/Program/textfile.txt"

How do I do that?

Thanks in advance

When you specify a string litteral, you should simply create the string you want. Your original string should have been formatted as follows:

"C:\\program\\textfile.txt";

Note that back-slash characters are considered ESCAPE characters. For example \n means carrige return. The "\\" translates to a single '\'