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Replace each leading and trailing whitespace with underscore using regex in javascript

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The output should look like this This code works fine for the trailing whitespaces but all the leading whitespaces are replaced with just one underscore. The working php regex for this is: /Gs|s(?=s*$)/ Answer Not pretty, but gets the job done

Javascript string-replace function ignoring hyphen

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I have the following code: The alert gives hello,,..there I would expect it to give hello—,,..there as all the characters, including hyphens, are specified as exceptions in the replacement function. What am I doing wrong? Answer Escape the hyphen:

How to trim a file extension from a String in JavaScript?

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For example, assuming that x = filename.jpg, I want to get filename, where filename could be any file name (Let’s assume the file name only contains [a-zA-Z0-9-_] to simplify.). I saw x.substring(0, x.indexOf(‘.jpg’)) on DZone Snippets, but wouldn’t x.substring(0, x.length-4) perform b…

Replace spaces with dashes and make all letters lower-case

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I need to reformat a string using jQuery or vanilla JavaScript Let’s say we have “Sonic Free Games”. I want to convert it to “sonic-free-games”. So whitespaces should be replaced by dashes and all letters converted to small letters. Any help on this please? Answer Just use the String r…

How to program a text search and replace in PDF files

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How would I be able to programmatically search and replace some text in a large number of PDF files? I would like to remove a URL that has been added to a set of files. I have been able to remove the link using javascript under Batch Processing in Adobe Pro, but the link text remains. I have seen recommendati…