use regex to replace all but first occurrence of a substring of blanks

Question

The following statement runs fine:

$wb.upLinearLoad.append(\'
\' + sprintf(\"%5s%8.1f to%7.1f%8.1f%6.0f%8.0f\",sLinearSegName[i][j],fLinearPtBA[i][j],f         


        
      

Answer 1

Just don't do it using strings. Instead, use the jQuery/DOM manipulation. It's less prone to error and more efficient.

$wb.upLinearLoad.append(
    $('
').append(
        sprintf("%5s%8.1f to%7.1f%8.1f", sLinearSegName[i][j], fLinearPtBA[i][j], fLinearPtBA[i][j+1], fLen),
        $('').addClass('wt').text(sprintf("%6.0f%8.0f", fLinearPtPpi[i][j], fLinearSegMaxWt[i][j]))[0]
    )
);