Character substitution on Jquery

Here an easy way to search and replace each occurrence a group of characters (in this case underscore and minus) with another (in this case a space) on a specified element (in this case each A), using Jquery javascript library.

 $("a").each(function() { $(this).html($(this).html().replace(/[_-]/g," ")); });

The first argument passed on replace is a regex, if you just pass a single character (like “\_” or “-“) only first occurrence for each element.

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Real world usage: I use this onto a long page, where a table has long filenames with underscore and minus in place of spaces. This trick allows in my case to show tables nicely, without caring on a mass substitution via server side scripting.

Character substitution on Jquery

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