Javascript Replace Globally

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a bit of javascript

function hasSpaces(name)
{
if(name.search(/^\s*/) != -1){
alert(name);
name.replace((/^\s*/, "~"))
alert(name);
}
return name;
}

The name comes in like john smith and i have to turn it to john~smith, the alerts are just for testing. Sorry if this is the wrong forum but i need help and am terrible at javascript. It also has to replace all spaces in the name in case the name is john adams smith to john~adams~smith

thanks
Sean

2

Insania,
We know about unix -- Java in not in the plate.
If you are lucky, you will find somebody here with Java experience.
Good luck!

3

Javascript is not Java.

The following example shows how to perform a global replace of whitespace character to "~".

var spx = /\s/g;
alert("adam smith king".replace(spx, "~"));

See:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core\_JavaScript\_1.5\_Reference:Global_Objects:RegExp