good point, thanks. that was part of the problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: caffeinewabbit
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:23 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: remove all spaces using RegExp
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.
>
