Replace ampersand by html safe code problem

February 12, 2019 21:48

I have a simple calculation field, which aims to replace all special characters in a string.

This works :

"Chip & Dale".replace(/</g,"<");
"Chip & Dale".replace(/>/g,">");
"Chip & Dale".replace(/\'/g,"'");
"Chip & Dale".replace(/"/g,""");

but it doesn't work for

"Chip & Dale".replace(/&/g,"&");

=> No matter what I do, Podio refuses to transform "&" into "&" in the end result (it DOES however show & in the calculation preview)

Does Podio overrule this somehow? Anybody has an idea on how to force this?

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Rainer Grabowski

February 13, 2019 22:05

Edited
Hi Mike,

first: It also doesn't work for the 4 others. If you replace <>'" by their entity they will be displayed as <>"' in calculation fields.
What you need is a zero-white-space before the semicolon.
You can either copy a zero-white-space to your clipboard (some websites offer that, just seach for it) and paste it before the semicolon or after the & - or you use an encoded UTF:
```
"Chip & Dale".replace(/&/g,"&amp\u200B;")
```
In Globiflow you can use the Unicode as HTML encoded  to update e.g a multiline text field (but it works only after the &)
```
str_replace("&","&&#8203;amp;","Chip & Dale")
```
Rainer
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