the first time I run gulp it will change lets say cb=123 to cb=1607263938392 (this is the new Date().getTime()) but afterwards even I run it hundred times by hand running gulp, it will not change. If I delete a couple of digits it will replace the string again. I noticed that when the digits are exactly 13 it doesn't replace them. I run it by hand without a watch.
const { src, series, parallel, dest, watch } = require('gulp');
const replace = require('gulp-replace');
function replaceHtml() {
var cbString = 'cb='+new Date().getTime();
return src(["index.html"])
.pipe(replace(/cb=\d+/g, function() {
return cbString;
}))
.pipe(dest("."));
}
exports.default = replaceHtml;<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css?cb=1607263938392">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
ok, i finally found out that the problem was that vscode did not update the file. it updated only if the characters were less or more than already in the file. btw I am using vscode 1.51.1 (debian version) on linux. I did a cat index.html and I show that the file was changing. it was really driving me nuts!!! thanks a lot Mark for your reply