Replace './' dot slash globally with Regex

Question

I want to replace all instances of ./ in my js

My code is like this

var text = './test';
var baseUrl = 'http://www.example.com/';
text = text.replace(/./\/g, baseUrl);

This isn't working as I want to also replace a forward slash. How can I ignore this?

Answer 1

Try to match the dot like \. and the forward slash like \/:

If you want to match a literal dot you have to escape it using a backslash or else it would match (Almost) Any Character.

You have to escape the forward slash \/ because that is the delimiter used for the start and the end of the regex.

var text = './test';
var baseUrl = 'http://www.example.com/';
text = text.replace(/\.\//g, baseUrl);
console.log(text);