Re: [OT] Jquery Remove Trailing "&" From String

[Brad Lindsay-2]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Israel Thompson wrote:
> Sorry, for posting here.. something seems to be wrong with my post  
> being
> accepted in the Jquery list...
>
> What's the easiest way to remove the trailing "&" from a string in  
> Jquery?

If the string is a JavaScript variable named str, this code should work:

        str.replace(/&$/,"");

-Brad

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[Brad Lindsay-2]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Brad Lindsay wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Israel Thompson wrote:
>> Sorry, for posting here.. something seems to be wrong with my post  
>> being
>> accepted in the Jquery list...
>>
>> What's the easiest way to remove the trailing "&" from a string in  
>> Jquery?
>
> If the string is a JavaScript variable named str, this code should  
> work:
>
> str.replace(/&$/,"");
>
> -Brad

If you want to replace all trailing "&", for example "test&&&&"  
becomes "test", edit the regular expression so that the code looks  
like this:
        str.replace(/&+$/, "");

-Brad

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[Israel Thompson]

Thanks, that works!

Israel

Brad Lindsay-2 wrote:

> If the string is a JavaScript variable named str, this code should  
> work:
>
> str.replace(/&$/,"");
>
> -Brad


If you want to replace all trailing "&", for example "test&&&&"  
becomes "test", edit the regular expression so that the code looks  
like this:
        str.replace(/&+$/, "");

-Brad