strin replace code example

Example 1: javascript remove text from string

var str = "That is like so not cool, I was like totally mad.";
var cleanStr = str.replace(/like/g, "");//replace every "like" with blank ""

Example 2: how to replace all the string in javascript when the string is javascript variable

function name(str,replaceWhat,replaceTo){
    replaceWhat = replaceWhat.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&');
    var re = new RegExp(replaceWhat, 'g');
    return str.replace(re,replaceTo);
}