Flexible JavaScript – Replace in a String

Stoimen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:36:02 +0000

Here’s yet another example of the JavaScript flexibility. You can simply call .replace() on every string and pass a regex as a parameter!

var str = 'my simple string';
str.replace(/ /g, '-'); // now 'str' will contain 'my-simple-string'

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