Is there an alternative to regexp lookbehind in javascript?

djdolphin

I wrote this javascript code:

data = data.replace(/(?<!>)\n/g, "<br>");

It's supposed to replace all newlines not preceded by > with <br>, but it looks like javascript's regexp engine doesn't support lookbehinds. Does anyone know an alternative I could use?

Last edited by djdolphin (April 1, 2014 01:06:29)

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Hardmath123

 /[^>]\n/g

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Maybe you should ask this on Stack Overflow?

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nXIII

Hardmath123 wrote:
 /[^>]\n/g 

That doesn't work for initial newlines and doesn't keep the preceding character. You can do something like

replace(/([^>]|^)\n/g, '$1<br>')

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djdolphin

nXIII wrote:
Hardmath123 wrote:
 /[^>]\n/g 
That doesn't work for initial newlines and doesn't keep the preceding character. You can do something like
replace(/([^>]|^)\n/g, '$1<br>')

Thanks, it works great!

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