Are you remembering to assign the new value back to your variable?
i.e.:
coordinatesStr = coordinatesStr.replace("\\s+","");
Greg C.
--- In [email protected], "Matthew Ganz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi.
>
> i've got a string with a bunch of extra spaces in it; line breaks,
tabs, etc...for some reason when i try to RegExp it, it doesn't remove
it. anything wrong with this statement??
>
> coordinatesStr.replace("\\s+",""); // doesn't remove any spaces
>
> i've tried this and it still doesn't work:
> var myPattern:RegExp = /\\s+\g;
> coordinatesStr.replace(myPattern,"");
>
> any tips are very much appreciated. thank you. -- matt.
>
