Replace function

[ford Darcy Jr]

Hi,

I am writing a replace function in Javascript to remove the spaces in a filename which is used for file upload. Somehow my replace function is not getting executed.

Here is the code:

<SCRIPT language = JavaScript>

function test ()
{
var str1 = document.formname.filename.value
str1 = str1.replace(" ", "%20");
}
</script>
and this function is called on the submit button.

Can you please let me know where I am going wrong.

Thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

you want to do this:

regEx = /\s/gi;
str1 = str1.replace(regEx, "%20");

but you might be better off by doing

var str1 = escape(document.formname.filename.value);

Eric
[ May 25, 2005: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]