How can I change text to new text?

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I'm making an API called Server.js Now, what I'm trying to do is change the HTML text ({date}) turn to the actual date. Instead of changing it to the actual date it stayed as ({date}). I'm wondering how I can fix this. Can you help me? This is my code:

var doc = document.toString();
var doc1 = doc.replace("\(\{date\}\)", new Date());
doc.innerHTML = "";
doc.innerHTML = doc1;

Any help appreciated!

Why are you escaping parts of the string? `"\(\{date\}\)"` should just be `"({date})"`. — , Dec 22 '17 at 19:10

Kyle Delaney · Answer 1 · 2017-12-22T20:13:01.863

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I don't think you need the escaped characters. Just make it a normal string.

var doc1 = doc.replace("({date})", new Date());

EDIT: There are several ways you could possibly replace all occurrences. A simple search would reveal questions like How to replace all occurrences of a string in JavaScript?

You can try a regular expression:

var doc1 = doc.replace(new RegExp("\\({date}\\)", 'g'), new Date());

edited Dec 22 '17 at 20:13

answered Dec 22 '17 at 19:14

Kyle Delaney

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To be clear, are you just trying to replace one occurrence or all occurrences? – Kyle Delaney Dec 22 '17 at 20:05
I'm trying to do all. – Dec 22 '17 at 20:06
Does this correctly replace the first occurrence, though? – Kyle Delaney Dec 22 '17 at 20:10
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@Judahrogan It would be more helpful to us if you explained *how* it doesn't work. Simply saying "it doesn't work" doesn't inform us how code needs to be changed. – Dec 22 '17 at 21:32
@Judahrogan It's been a while since we've heard from you. Have you made any progress? – Kyle Delaney Dec 30 '17 at 23:07
Waiting for what? – Kyle Delaney Jan 01 '18 at 16:45

How can I change text to new text?

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