SSJS interpretation seems to be different from regular Javascript

Question

I found a difference between Lotus Domino SSJS iterpretation and regular Javascript.

Look at this snippet...

var mister = "mister in the hat".replace(" ", "-");
return mister

Regular Javascript does replave only once. The result is "mister-in the hat". SSJS does full replace. The result is "mister-in-the-hat".

Is there any documentation, in what way the SSJS is diferent from regular JS?

Answer 1

I suspect Server-Side JavaScript will be influenced more by Java rather than JavaScript. This is because any SSJS written is just passed as a string to a Java method that parses the code at runtime. I know of ither differences to CSJS - parseInt, for example, defaults to base 10, not base 8 (JavaScript default).

The behaviour is documented in the Domino Designer help, under Lotus Domino Designer XPages Reference - Standard (JavaScript) - String - Replace. If in doubt, check out the Help. It's very good for these libraries, with plenty of examples as well as documentation.