Convert Text in a Span

[dkschouten]

I need to force the word views to be Chinese characters in this without changing the number before it.
<span class="title_date">591&nbsp;views</span>

I was gonna use
$j('.title_date').text('討論區');
I know the characters here does not say views, I'm just using it as an example.

But that would remove the number. Any ideas?

[007Julien]

Use a regular expression with something like this (whitout jQuery).

var str='<span class="title_date">591&nbsp;views</span>';
newStr=str.replace(/(\d+&nbsp;)views/g,"$1看法");
alert(newStr);

The $1 is the first subpattern of the regular expression (one or more digits followed by &nbsp; ) and the characters 看法 could say view or views ?

[dkschouten]

Use a regular expression with something like this (whitout jQuery).

var str='<span class="title_date">591&nbsp;views</span>';
newStr=str.replace(/(\d+&nbsp;)views/g,"$1看法");
alert(newStr);

This characters 看法 could say view or views ?

This works for each individual string, but I need to do it dynamically based on the class. I have 300 of these that all need to be changed as soon as the page loads. I don't have the time to write it out 300 times for each string as well as the number variables change. I need to be able to change it based class title_date and skip what ever number is there and only change the string views.

Sorry I didn't explain that before.

[007Julien]

Then use jQuery to replace the strings ! With something like this (jQuery is not my cup of the)

$j('.title_date').text.replaceWith(this.text().replace(/(\d+ )views/g,"$1看法");)