js replace some string with “\n”

Question

if I have a string that I need to replace every "^^" in the text to break line but with no use for <br> because I am using <texarea> and the <textarea> will display the <br> as a text I wrote some code to do this but this doesn't work

var text="Hello ^^ World ^^ Break ^^ Line",
txt=text.replace(/^^/g,"\n");

who do i fix this?

tnx for helping

Answer 1

You need to escape your ^ , the correct regex would be /\\^\\^/g .

^ otherwise means "starts with" (or "exclude", if it is the first character within square brackets).

Answer 2

 var text=" Hello ^^ World ^^ Break ^^ Line", txt=text.replace(/\\^\\^/g,"\\n"); console.log(txt) 

Answer 3

Another no-regex solution would be splitting up the string and join it again.

 var text="Hello ^^ World ^^ Break ^^ Line", txt=text.split('^^').join('\\n'); console.log(txt); 

Keep in mind that this solution is not as fast as regular expression solutions but it will work fine.