Replace "&" with "and"

[chup]

Hi, i just did a ecard recently, and someone my php script will not allow this "&" character. How can i do a loop to check for a particular text field to replace whater "&" it found with "and" ?

thanks

[theTick]

dunno if that helps in your case, but you can transform special characters into escape sequences and then send that escaped string to php:

var myEscapedString = escape(_root.myTextBox.text);

[catbert303]

In this case escaping the text seems reasonable, but if you did want to do a find and replace you might use something like this,

txt = txt.split("&").join("and");

which should replace all occurences of & in the variable txt with and.

[flashX]

hi guys!

thanks catbert303!

how would i go about converting multiple words?

for eg:
from: &, tree, day, sky
to: and, plant, night, ground

is there a quick way of doing this?

cheers!

[catbert303]

Hi flashX,

You could try this:

var from = ["&", "tree", "day", "sky"];
var to = ["and", "plant", "night", "ground"];
for (var i = 0; i < from.length; ++i) {
txt = txt.split(from[i]).join(to[i]);
}