help with global replace

[sheardben]

I'm trying to make a function to strip a string of all \ slashes.

Initially I had:

String.prototype.stripSlashes = function () 
{
  return this.replace('\\',''); 
}

and that worked fine except it only replaced the first slash (which it apparently is supposed to do). So i read up about global replacements but cant seem to get the right combination of /s and \s.
This is what i have at the moment:

String.prototype.stripSlashes = function () 
{
  return this.replace('/\\/g',''); 
}

but thats not working at all. any suggestions? thanks!!

[crmalibu]

this.replace(/\\/g,'')

You need to use a regular expression in order to be able to specify a global replace. I used the regex litteral syntax, but you could also have used the RegExp object to create one via a string, and have the opportunity to specify the g flag

[sheardben]

Thanks very much for that information - used what you gave me and it worked perfectly, thanks!

[JCDisciple]

The code below results in this:

--.html
or
-.html

instead of:

ManufacturerName-ManufacturerPartNumber-PartNumber.html

  <%

If Not oRS.EOF Then
Do While not oRS.eof

    MfgName = oRS("MfgName") 
    MfgPart = oRS("MfgPart") 
    PartNo = oRS("PartNo") 

Set Regex = New RegExp 
Regex.Pattern = "[^A-Za-z0-9]"   ' Basically not alphanumeric
Regex.Global = True

    if len(MfgName) > 0 then 
		MfgName = Regex.Replace(Trim(Request("MfgName")),"")
	else
		MfgName = ""
	End If
    if len(MfgPart) > 0 then 
		MfgPart = Regex.Replace(Trim(Request("MfgPart")),"")
	else
		MfgPart = ""
	End If
    if len(PartNo) > 0 then 
		PartNo = Regex.Replace(Trim(Request("PartNo")),"")
	else
		PartNo = ""
	End If
	

addforurl=".html"

If PartNo = "" then
	producturl=MfgName + "-" + MfgPart + addforurl
Else
	producturl=MfgName + "-" + MfgPart + "-" + PartNo + addforurl
End If

%>

<%=producturl%>

<br>
<%
oRS.movenext
Loop
%>

Right now I am using this bloated method to strip out unwanted characters:

<%
    MfgPart = oRS("MfgPart") 
    if len(MfgPart) > 0 then 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, " ", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "/", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "&", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "(", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, ")", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "#", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "_", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "|", "") 
        MfgPart = replace(MfgPart, "'", "") 
    else 
        MfgPart = "" 
    end if 
%>