Javascript regex replace text with emoticons

Question

I need to replace text like ;) or :p by emoticon but I can\'t create a regex in order to detect this. Now i can detect only like :wink:

Answer 1

This function takes a string and returns a string with all the replacements found inside of the emots object.

function replaceText(text) {
  var emots = {
    ";)": "wink",
    ":)": "xxx",
    ":p": "xxx", 
  };

  for(var key in emots){
    if(emots.hasOwnProperty(key)){
      text = text.replace(new RegExp(escapeRegExp(key), 'g'), '');
    }
  }
  return text;
}

function escapeRegExp(str) {
  return str.replace(/[\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\\\^\$\|]/g, "\\$&");
}