Your function works. How/when are you firing it?
the following responds as expected.
<script type="text/javascript">
function cleanQuestion(str) {
var myReturn = str.replace(/^\?/, '?');
return myReturn;
}
alert('?');
alert(cleanQuestion('?'));
</script>
but why not use encodeURI?
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_encodeURI.asp
On Jul 1, 2:31 am, BeeRich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I have a form submission that might take a question mark as part of a
> field. Of course, setting the params variable for an ajax.request
> will essentially screw it up due to the second question mark in the
> params string.
>
> So I went to regexp and made this function:
>
> function cleanQuestion(str) {
> /* Returns a string with question marks as $#63;
> */
> var myReturn = str.replace(/^\?/, '?');
> return myReturn;
>
> }
>
> The problem is, it still shows up as a question mark.
>
> Anybody know how to get around this?
>
> Cheers
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