Discuss "find words and change" in the JavaScript Programming forum.

Hi,

If someone enters High School in a text box i want to make it H.S.

If someone enters university in a textbox I want to make it Unv

I tried the replace function in javascript but i think i messed it up somewhere

Any idea

todd

Could you post your code?

And how are you calling the JS function?

for one, post your code. for two, what if they type in Univ ... or College or etc. well, hopefully you get what i'm getting at. why not use a drop down box so that they will always be what you want them to be.

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hi,
this is the code i have


but if someone enters university it doesnt change it to Unv

can someone tell me how i can make it happen

todd

There is really no good way to do what you are trying to do. The number of permutations are almost infinite, even if you upper or lower case the string prior to doing the replace:
High School
High School
High School
University
Univ.
Univ
are all different.

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