does javascript replace method change all instances of a string code example
Example 1: javascript replace all occurrences of string
function replaceAll(str, find, replace) {
var escapedFind=find.replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\])/g, "\\$1");
return str.replace(new RegExp(escapedFind, 'g'), replace);
}
var sentence="How many shots did Bill take last night? That Bill is so crazy!";
var blameSusan=replaceAll(sentence,"Bill","Susan");
Example 2: how to replace all the string in javascript when the string is javascript variable
function name(str,replaceWhat,replaceTo){
var re = new RegExp(replaceWhat, 'g');
return str.replace(re,replaceTo);
}