On 6 March 2012 05:35, Biju <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have proposal, can we have 3rd parameter for replace() function? > like > > haystack.replace(needle, newText, regexpFlag); > > where regexpFlag is the flag part of the RegExp. > And if "needle" is a string will be used to make the match characters > after "escaping" special characters like *?.()[]{}\^$|/ >
No no no no nooooooooooooooooo. This is already one of the best functions in JavaScript but has been really badly designed. This suggestion makes it worse. < http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2010/09/27/string-replace-javascript-bad-design/> Even Twitter devs seemed to struggle with using it correctly to fix a DOM xss issue.
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