How to globally replace a forward slash in a JavaScript string?

Question

How to globally replace a forward slash in a JavaScript string?

Answer 1

var str = '/questions'; // input: "/questions"
while(str.indexOf('/') != -1){
   str = str.replace('/', 'http://stackoverflow.com/');
}
alert(str); // output: "http://stackoverflow.com/questions"

The proposed regex /\//g did not work for me; the rest of the line (//g, replacement);) was commented out.

Answer 2

Without using regex (though I would only do this if the search string is user input):

var str = 'Hello/ world/ this has two slashes!';
alert(str.split('/').join(',')); // alerts 'Hello, world, this has two slashes!' 

Answer 3

Hi a small correction in the above script.. above script skipping the first character when displaying the output.

function stripSlashes(x)
{
var y = "";
for(i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
{
    if(x.charAt(i) == "/")
    {
        y += "";
    }
    else
    {
        y+= x.charAt(i);
    }
}
return y;   
}

Answer 4

The following would do but only will replace one occurence:

"string".replace('/', 'ForwardSlash');

For a global replacement, or if you prefer regular expressions, you just have to escape the slash:

"string".replace(/\//g, 'ForwardSlash');