I have a string as follows: I’m trying to get rid of the characters between the backslashes. Wanted result: I know how to remove everything except characters between two special characters WITHOUT removing the special characters. Every answer on stack includes removing them too 🙁 Answer Put the backslashes in the replacement string. Note that you need to double them
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Reverting overridden String prototype
I have an overridden String.prototype in my javascript window. I have a reference to an iframe window that hasn’t been touched, and I want to use it to create a new string without the overridden functions: How do I create a new string without the overridden functions? For overridden Array.prototype using a fresh iframe works but not for String. Note
How to store strings for translation in Vue project
I want to use two Languages in my application – so i want a dictionary like string file (kinda like in android development) where i simply store my strings with id’s and can access the strings easily by id perhaps with a parameter for my language. What kind of file is easy to parse in my vue components and is
How to concat date string to another string using ‘=>’
I want to concat both the strings so that final output looks as below: 2020-08-01=>Incident is created I am doing string1.concat(string2) but it is not giving the desired output. Answer You can simply and the easiest way is to use concat and split()
How to write regex to match equal pairs of delimiters?
I have different dates like this: But the delimiter in the dates could be a dash – or a dot . or forward slash /. I have tried regex that works but I need to check if date is entered with non-matching delimiters like this DD-MM/YY then it should be invalid because the 1st delimiter is – and 2nd one
How do i find character position (row, col) in multi-line string?
How i can find position of current character in multi-line string? If every line in a string was the same length it would be easy. E.g. But how can i do it, if every row is different length? E.g. Answer Use a while loop to iterate over the split lines, subtracting the length of the current line from the number
Why does Javascript only type-cast for string concatenation on strings that are already assigned?
I noticed something strange when messing around with strings and numbers in a Javascript console. Doing this: “$99.9” += 0 causes SyntaxError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment. But if I assign the string to a variable, the behavior is different (and more in line with what we’ve come to expect/accept from Javascript) let str = “$99.9” str += 0 //
Find difference between two strings in JavaScript
I need to find difference between two strings. The expected output is to find the extra n and log it to the console. Is there any way to do this in JavaScript? Answer Another option, for more sophisticated difference checking, is to make use of the PatienceDiff algorithm. I ported this algorithm to Javascript at… https://github.com/jonTrent/PatienceDiff …which although the algorithm
Repeat String Infinitely – Return Count of Specific Character Within N Length of Infinite String – JavaScript
Trying to solve this HackerRank challenge: Lilah has a string, s, of lowercase English letters that she repeated infinitely many times. Given an integer, n, find and print the number of letter a’s in the first letters of Lilah’s infinite string. For example, if the string s = abcac and n = 10, the substring we consider is abcacabcac, the
Most Efficient Way to Find Last Occurrence of a Character in a Given Range
I’m fairly new to JavaScript and need to find an efficient way to get the index of the last occurrence of a space character within a given range. I’m not sure if this could be done with RegEx or not; I’m currently doing it with the built in string methods, however, building a new string with the substring method seems