Flex RichTextEditor

Thanks deepanjandas,

I did that before and I tried to replace all special characters like apostrophes (’) and double quotation at once from html string. Please advice.

I tried to replace the characters  but didn’t work
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"’"/g, "'");
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"‘"/g, "'");
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"“"/g, '"');
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"“"/g, '"');

When you copy a apostrophe from word and paste it in editor, it fails to understand the character and thinks it to be an an unknown one.

Hence it sets a # or sometimes something like a block.

But if you paste that text in notepad and then paste it in editor, you will see that it works correctly.

So it may be difficult to replace the apostrophe as you have done, because, the apostrophe is actually a junk character for the editor.

Warm Regards
Deepanjan Das

I agree with you when you paste that text in notepad and then paste it in editor it will work. There is no way to replace all apostrophe to something recognizable. Can we do replace all for that characters?

The said character is accepted as a junk one by the editor, so it is hard to track that when you paste from word.

Warm Regards
Deepanjan Das

I was able to repalce one character in the one statment using replace function. I want to do it for all characters (apostrophe) in the text.

What about the replacement?

I think  myStr = myStr.split("'").join(""); will work partially unless we track all characters that are recognized by RichTextEditor which is will be hard as you mentioned specially if you paste from word and apostrophe or other character differs from font to another.
Please advise on that.

Thanks for your valuable cooperation

Then what you have done in ID:34950607 is good by using RegEx.
So I atleast see no options to do that for these junk characters.


Warm Regards
Deepanjan Das

I didn't work using RegEx. it is working with myStr = myStr.split("'").join("");

How can we do it using RegEx?

RegEx is the one you used with replace.
Its the pattern that you defined in the first argument of replace method.

Warm Regards
Deepanjan Das

I did it but wasn't work. I could defined wrong patter. Check it please

     myStr = myStr.replace(/"’"/g, "'");
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"‘"/g, "'");
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"“"/g, '"');
      myStr = myStr.replace(/"“"/g, '"');

Thanks Deepanjan Das for your valuable support.

Did it work?

Warm Regards
Deepanjan Das

Overall is OK. Thanks Deepanjan.