Removing all occurrences of '^' from a String

Question

I have this sorta string = "^My Name Is Robert.^" I want to remove the occurrences of ^ from this string. I tried the replace method like :

replyText.replace(/^/g, '');

But it hasn't any affect. Using the replace without the global works but only removes the first occurrence.

Should I just make a loop and keep looping the string with replace till no more '^' are contained, or is there a better way?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '20 at 07:41

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You need to escape the ^ character in RegEx:

replyText.replace(/\^/g, '');

answered Sep 02 '20 at 07:41

Dom

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '20 at 07:50

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The caret, ^, is a special character in Regex, therefore it has to be escaped with a backslash i.e

replyText.replace(/\^/g, '')

answered Sep 02 '20 at 07:50

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