Replace problem

[Ollifi]

Hi, i started to play with JS replace function today.....but got problemsplease go to this address http://www.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.d...threadid.739338 and write this to browser addressbar

java script:var sku=location.href;sku.replace("http:/www.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/Forum", "");sku.replace("/~~threadid.[0-9]/i", "");alert(sku);

I tried with firefox & Chrome but they both output a alert with text

http://www.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/Forum.24~threadid.739338

text should be

24

hopefully you could help me..thx!

[aspnetguy]

try this

ava script:var sku=location.href;sku=sku.replace("http:/www.dealextreme.com/forums/Forums.dx/Forum", "");sku=sku.replace("/~~threadid.[0-9]/i", "");alert(sku);

[justsomeguy]

Check the characters in your URL. Your pattern to look for the numbers will also want to specify "1 or more", right now you're looking for only 1 digit following the dot (the dot probably needs to be escaped also, but probably won't matter). You also have 2 tildes in the second pattern.