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In postman, I want to change all occurrences of a slash to an underscore in my string.

So far I have written a test which parses the JSON response and pushes the string I want into an array, from this point my code looks like below

//an example string is below

var string =  "1/7842/0889#001";

// convert / to _
var slash = "/";
var newstring = string.replace (slash, "_");


// This just changes the first occurrence of the slash to an underscore

I tried using the `g' modifier and this fails in Postman 

var newstring = string.replace (/slash/g, "_");

I want the string to end up as

"1_7842_0889#001";

Danny Dainton
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Nick Pilbeam
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  • Just use `string.replace(/\//g, '_')` and refer the original question [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144783/how-to-replace-all-occurrences-of-a-string). – M0nst3R Jul 24 '19 at 09:09

3 Answers3

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You need to escape / in your regexp with '\'

//an example string is below
var string =  "1/7842/0889#001";

// convert / to _
var newstring = string.replace (/\//g, "_"); // prints 1_7842_0889#001

console.log(newstring);
klugjo
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Split it with forward slash and join them with _

var string =  "1/7842/0889#001";

var strArray = string.split('/');

var newString = strArray.join("_");

Or in one line

var newString = string.split('/').join("_");
Divyang Desai
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User regular expression which will help  us to replace the characters globally by adding g

All regular expressions will reside inside // So for your question the following code will help

Str.replace(/\//, "_") 

Added \/ just to escape it's value
ajaykumar mp
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