Let's say I have a string like so
Danny is ? James is ? Allen is ?
And I want to replace it to
Danny is great James is wonderful Allen is magnificent
How can I use replace to do it?
I'm attempting to do something like
string.replace(/\?/g, 'great ').replace(/\?/g, 'wonderful ').replace(/\?/g, 'magnificent');
but I just get:
Danny is great James is great Allen is great
If the case was something like:
Danny is ? James is # Allen is $
string.replace(/\?/g, 'great ').replace(/\#/g, 'wonderful ').replace(/\$/g, 'magnificent');
It would work as expected, but since it's the same character it's not working.
Is there a neater way to achieve this than doing something like below?
string = string.replace(/\?/g, 'great ')
string = string.replace(/\?/g, 'wonderful ')
string = string.replace(/\?/g, 'magnificent');
You are using the replace function with a regular expression with the /g (meaning: "global") option, which means it will replace the '?' everywhere in the string.
To replace only one occurence of '?' at a time, just use a normal string to find, eg: string.replace('?', 'great')
So, your full example would be:
string = string.replace('?', 'great ')
string = string.replace('?', 'wonderful ')
string = string.replace('?', 'magnificent');