Replacing multiple character instances from a string in Javascript

Question

So I have this piece of code:

var thisValue = $("input[id*=ID222]").val(); 
thisValue = thisValue.replace(',','');

Basically I want to remove all commas in this input element for taking it up for further processing. The above code works when there is only one comma in the field, but doesn't work for multiple commas. Is there another way? I tried replaceAll, and it didn't work.

possible duplicate of Replace multiple instances of a character in a string — Guffa
– Guffa, Commented Jun 2, 2011 at 8:43
possible duplicate of how to remove "," from a string in javascript. This is really the exact same question... — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Jun 2, 2011 at 9:29

lonesomeday · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-02 08:29:30Z

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You have to do a global replace using a regular expression. You can't do this by passing a string to replace:

thisValue = thisValue.replace(/,/g,'');

answered Jun 2, 2011 at 8:29

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