Replace angle brackets in Javascript string?

Question

Hi I have a string like below:

 >123456<

How can I easily replace the angle brackets and replace them with blank?

I have tried the below:

                        mystring.replace(/>/g, "");
                        mystring.replace(/</g, "");

However if I do an alert(mystring); on this it is still showing with the angle brackets?

Answer 1

You need to assign, in this case, mystring with the result of the operation.

var s = '>123456789<';
s = s.replace(/[<>]/g, '');
alert(s);

Answer 2

You are not setting it back to the string:

mystring = mystring.replace(/>/g, "");
mystring = mystring.replace(/</g, "");

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As in Zanathel's answer, use a single regex for this [<>] thats cleaner than 2 statements.

mystring = mystring.replace(/[<>]/g, "");

Answer 3

mystring = mystring.replace(/>|</g, '')

Answer 4

var xx =">123456<";
alert(xx.replace(">","").replace("<",""));

Answer 5

In Javascript strings are immutable. Therefore, every time you make change to string a new string object is created.

This will work fine:

mystring = mystring.replace(/>/g, "");
mystring = mystring.replace(/</g, "");

Answer 6

Try this.. It worked for me:

var str = ">123456<";
var ne = str.replace(">", "");
ne = ne.replace("<", "");

alert(ne);