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Change Multi line strings to Single line

Hi I have some text in following format,
683101,
682303,
682302,
682315,
683581,
686667,
682008,
683572,
683573,
682313,
686672,
683545 etc....
Each line break'ed into next line with "Enter". I have nearly 2000 lines of text like this. i want o display the above string to a single line like this.
683101,
682303,
682302,
682315,
683581,
686667,
682008,
683572,
683573,
682313,
686672,
683545,
686672,
683545 etc..
I think there is some tweak options in CSS for doing this. Is there a way in JavaScript to do this? Actually it is not a requirement for me, am just curious to know how it is done.
Edit:
In My text editor it looks like this,
When i try to run it, this is what i get.
Thats why i want to remove the enter, multiline.......

You can use Regular expression to remove all the linebreaks and replace them using space.
str = str.replace(/\n/g, ' ');
Here, \n will match all the line-breaks, and replace them by space

I have a simple way for this. You can do this without extra code. Just write like this -
var str = "12345,\
234234,\
234324,\
234324,\
234324,\
234234";
now just add a slash
Ok, If you don't want to use the above method then use another plan is -
take inside an array and after that use the join method
var str = [12345,
234234,
234324,
234324,
234324,
234234];
str.join(",");
If we are using ES6, Then we have an elegant way to do this using Backtick -
var str = `12345,
234234,
234324,
234324,
234324,
234234`;

Since your data is already comma separated, you can try to add "[" to the beginning and append " ].toString().replace(/\n/g," ") " to the end of your data to get a single line string like this:
[683101,
682303,
682302,
682315,
683581,
686667,
682008,
683572,
683573,
682313,
686672,
683545].toString().replace(/\\n/g," ")
then you get:
"683101,682303,682302,682315,683581,686667,682008,683572,683573,682313,686672,683545"
I hope this helps :)

If all you want is to put those values in one line then, you can set those values as the value of a textarea field. This will allow you to read all those values into a javascript string. Afterward you can apply the regular expression that Tushar suggested.
See the code segment below:
<textarea id="content">
683101,
682303,
682302,
682315,
683581,
686667,
682008,
683572,
683573,
682313,
686672,
683545
</textarea>
Here is the javascript:
var content = $('#content').val();
var content = content.replace(/\n/g, ' ');
console.log(content);

How to remove ' in java script

I have problem in removing ' with (blank and no space). Like Kello's to kellos.
I already tried this-
str = str.replace(/[\']/g, '');
But its not working.
Please help.

It actually does work:
var str = 'aa\'bb\'cc';
alert(str.replace(/'/g,'')); // aabbcc
alert(str.replace(/[\']/g,'')); // aabbcc
You do not need a character class, you just have to mask it if you use single quotes in JavaScript.
Also, keep in mind that ' (U+0027) is different from ’ (U+2019) and must be handled separately.

A Kello's
str.replace(/[{\ },{\'}]/g,"");
result AKellos

Is it possible to cut off the beginning of a string using regex?

I have a string which contains a path, such as
/foo/bar/baz/hello/world/bla.html
Now, I'd like to get everything from the second-last /, i.e. the result shall be
/world/bla.html
Is this possible using a regex? If so, how?
My current solution is to split the string into an array, and join its last two members again, but I'm sure that there is a better solution than this.

For example:
> '/foo/bar/baz/hello/world/bla.html'.replace(/.*(\/.*\/.*)/, "$1")
/world/bla.html

You can also do
str.split(/(?=\/)/g).slice(-2).join('')

> '/foo/bar/baz/hello/world/bla.html'.match(/(?:\/[^/]+){2}$/)[0]
"/world/bla.html"
Without regular expression:
> var s = '/foo/bar/baz/hello/world/bla.html';
> s.substr(s.lastIndexOf('/', s.lastIndexOf('/')-1))
"/world/bla.html"

I think this will work:
var str = "/foo/bar/baz/hello/world/bla.html";
alert( str.replace( /^.*?(\/[^/]*(?:\/[^/]*)?)$/, "$1") );
This will allow for there being possibly only one last part (like, "foo/bar").

You can use /(\/[^\/]*){2}$/ which selects a slash and some content twice followed by the end of the string.
See this regexplained.

How to replace all the \ from a string with space in javascript?

For example:
var str="abc\'defgh\'123";
I want to remove all the \ using Javascript. I have tried with several functions but still can't replace all the forward slashes.

I've posted a huuuge load of bollocks on JS and multiple replace functionality here. But in your case any of the following ways will do nicely:
str = str.replace('\\',' ');//Only replaces first occurrence
str = str.replace(/\\/g,' ');
str = str.split('\\').join(' ');
As #Guillaume Poussel pointed out, the first approach only replaces one occurrence of the backslash. Don't use that one, either use the regex, or (if your string is quite long) use the split().join() approach.

Just use the replace function like this:
str = str.replace('\\', ' ');
Careful, you need to escape \ with another \. The function returns the modified string, it doesn't modify the string on which it is called, so you need to catch the return value like in my example! So just doing:
str.replace('\\', ' ');
And then using str, will work with the original string, without the replacements.

str="abc\\'asdf\\asdf"
str=str.replace(/\\/g,' ')
You want to replace all '\' in your case, however, the function replace will only do replacing once if you use '\' directly. You have to write the pattern as a regular expression.
See http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp.

Try:
string.replace(searchvalue,newvalue)
In your case:
str.replace('\\', ' ');

Using string.replace:
var result = str.replace('\\', ' ');
Result:
"abc 'defgh '123"

How to replace multiple strings with replace() in Javascript

I'm guessing this is a simple problem, but I'm just learning...
I have this:
var location = (jQuery.url.attr("host"))+(jQuery.url.attr("path"));
locationClean = location.replace('/',' ');
locationArray = locationClean.split(" ");
console.log(location);
console.log(locationClean);
console.log(locationArray);
And here is what I am getting in Firebug:
stormink.net/discussed/the-ideas-behind-my-redesign
stormink.net discussed/the-ideas-behind-my-redesign
["stormink.net", "discussed/the-ideas-behind-my-redesign"]
So for some reason, the replace is only happening once? Do I need to use Regex instead with "/g" to make it repeat? And if so, how would I specifiy a '/' in Regex? (I understand very little of how to use Regex).
Thanks all.

Use a pattern instead of a string, which you can use with the "global" modifier
locationClean = location.replace(/\//g,' ');

The replace method only replaces the first occurance when you use a string as the first parameter. You have to use a regular expression to replace all occurances:
locationClean = location.replace(/\//g,' ');
(As the slash characters are used to delimit the regular expression literal, you need to escape the slash inside the excpression with a backslash.)
Still, why are you not just splitting on the '/' character instead?

You could directly split using the / character as the separator:
var loc = location.host + location.pathname, // loc variable used for tesing
locationArray = loc.split("/");

This can be fixed from your javascript.
SYNTAX
stringObject.replace(findstring,newstring)
findstring: Required. Specifies a string value to find. To perform a global search add a 'g' flag to this parameter and to perform a case-insensitive search add an 'i' flag.
newstring: Required. Specifies the string to replace the found value from findstring
Here's what ur code shud look like:
locationClean = location.replace(new RegExp('/','g'),' ');
locationArray = locationClean.split(" ");
njoi'