I have a laTeX string like this
let result = "\\frac{x}{2}+\\frac{3}{x}";
I want to find the index of "frac"s in the string and put them in a array then I want to find the first '}' char after "frac" and replace it with "}/" and finally remove "frac" from the string.
I used this block of code but it just work correctly when we have one "frac"
let result = "\\frac{x}{2}+\\frac{3}{x}";
if (result.indexOf("frac") != -1) {
for (let i = 0; i < result.split("frac").length; i++) {
let j = result.indexOf("frac");
let permission = true;
while (permission) {
if (result[j] == "}") {
result = result.replace(result[j], "}/")
permission = false;
}
j++;
}
result = result.replace('frac', '');
}
}
console.log(result)OUTPUT: \\{x}//{2}+\\{3}{x}
Could anyone help me to improve my code?
Something like this?
frac(.+?)}
is the literal frac followed by a capture group that will capture one or more of anything .+ until a } and replace it with that anything plus a }/
Using the function replacement to grab index and replace
let result = "\\frac{x}{2}+\\frac{3}{x}";
let pos = [];
const newRes = result.replace(/frac(.+?)}/g,function(match, found, offset,string) {
console.log(match,found,offset,string)
pos.push(offset)
return `${found}/`; // return the found string with the added slash
})
console.log(pos)
console.log(newRes)Older answer using two sets of code
let result = "\\frac{x}{2}+\\frac{3}{x}";
let re = /frac/gi, res, pos = [];
while ((res = re.exec(result))) {
pos.push(res.index);
}
const newRes = result.replace(/frac(.+?)}/g,"$1}/")
console.log(pos)
console.log(newRes)