Who needs this? I don't know! I did, and I sure did not find any helpful information out there, not with this keyword though. So, if you find this article because you searched the same thing as I do, then hey, you're in luck! And do note that I am not a coder, but who cares, as long as we get the job done, right? So, here goes:
- //let's say we have a variable, a value that has "\" in it for whatever reason, and we would like to remove it, because of, well, reasons. For example
- var = "I am legend \\(just kidding\\)";
- //well you might ask, why would I have "\\" in my variable? One reason is that you used it in your search parameter, and "(" and other special characters cannot be accepted so you'd have to add "\", but now you need to remove it again after searching the records, bummer
- specialChar = ['\\']; //yes, use single quote, trust me
- for each char in specialChar
- {
- newChar = char + "_"; //this is to combine the troublesome "\" with another character because heck, it has to be. Beats me why. Ask Zoho
- info newChar; // to know what you got so far
- // now to remove the "\"
- var = var.replaceAll(char, newChar); //believe me, the initial "\" in the 1st part of the "replaceAll" command is necessary
- var = var.replaceAll(newChar,""); //this is to remove all the special characters we added above
- info var; //now to get the result!
- }
In this case, the result should be "I am legend (just kidding)". Don't believe me? Copy my whole code and paste it on
https://deluge.zoho.com/tryout
and execute it!
Now you can use it to create/update record, or whatever you want for that matter. And, I am not sure if it works with other Zoho apps, you are very welcomed to try, though. Ok, I yapped too much already. That is all for today!
As always, good luck!
Nik, aplikasi.us
Zoho Premium Partner
p/s: Don't @ me, I'm not a coder nor was I aware of any article out there. My motto is, if it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid (most of the time, maybe). And if you don't want your code to be too long, you can just delete all my comments (the greyed-out texts) in the code above, goes without saying.
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