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In this example we will replace a string in another string using JavaScript
This time will use regular expressions
We will define a string, then we will define t he word we want to replace and then use string.replace to replace that string with another one.
You will see that the regex below has the following /gi, this means
Flags | Description |
---|---|
g |
Performs a global match (find all matches) |
i |
Performs case-insensitive matching |
Example 1
We are replacing the word red with blue
// replace all occurrence of a string const string = 'A red bird was sitting on a red fence, is it a redpoll'; // regex expression const regex = /red/gi; // replace the characters const newText = string.replace(regex, 'blue'); // display the result console.log(newText);
When you run this you will see something like this
A blue bird was sitting on a blue fence, is it a bluepoll