<p>Do any of the existing JavaScript frameworks have a non-regex <code>replace()</code> function,
or has this already been posted on the web somewhere as a one-off function?</p>

<p>For example I want to replace <code>"@!#$123=%"</code> and I don't want to worry about which characters to escape. Most languages seem to have both methods of doing replacements. I would like to see this simple thing added.</p>

i may be misunderstanding your question, but javascript does have a
```
replace()
```
```
```
var string = '@!#$123=%';
var newstring = string.replace('@!#$123=%', 'hi');
```
```
edit
: (see comments) the 5th edition does seem to have this info in it, although it doesn't show up when i
link directly
to it. here's the relevant part:
The replace( ) method performs a search-and-replace operation. It takes a regular expression as its first argument and a replacement string as its second argument. It searches the string on which it is called for matches with the specified pattern. If the regular expression has the g flag set, the replace( ) method replaces all matches in the string with the replacement string; otherwise, it replaces only the first match it finds.
If the first argument to replace( ) is a string rather than a regular expression, the method searches for that string literally rather than converting it to a regular expression with the RegExp( ) constructor, as search( ) does.