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For example
let myString = "This is my string";
let replacedString = myString.replace(/\ /g, "") //Thisismystring
Now that all the whitespaces have been removed, how do I put them back in the exact position?
Additionally, let's suppose the replaced string undergoes some change and becomes
let myChangedString = "(T)(h)(i)(s)(i)(s)(m)(y)(s)(t)(r)(i)(n)(g)";
Now I want to put the whitespaces back where they used to be i.e after (s) and before (i), after (s) and before (m), after (y) before (s)
I've spent a couple of hours on this and been stuck in the same position, any form of help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Solved, thank you very much.
The trick here is to replace the spaces with another character - rather than just removing the space. That way - its a simple matter to replace the added character with a space to return the spaces to where they started. When I do this - I always use the tilde character "~" since it is easily recognisable as well as unlikely to actually be used in a string.
I have added a few variations / modifications as well as the example you have provided with every character being wrapped in parentheses - just note that you will need to escape these when replaceing the (~) for the " " space character.
let myString = "This is my string";
let replacedString = myString.replace(/\ /g, "~");
console.log(replacedString);//This~is~my~string
let modifiedString = replacedString.replace(/my/g, "your");
console.log(modifiedString);//This~is~your~string
let spacedString = modifiedString.replace(/~/g, " ");
console.log(spacedString);//This is your string
// using your example of wrapping each character in parentheses
let myChangedString = "(" + modifiedString.split('').join(")(") + ")";
console.log(myChangedString); //(T)(h)(i)(s)(~)(i)(s)(~)(y)(o)(u)(r)(~)(s)(t)(r)(i)(n)(g)
let mySpacedString = myChangedString.replace(/\(~\)/g, " ");
console.log(mySpacedString); //(T)(h)(i)(s) (i)(s) (y)(o)(u)(r) (s)(t)(r)(i)(n)(g)
Why not replace only the parts you need to be replaced?
For example search for word character and replace with the wanted parts.
console.log("This is my string".replace(/\w/g, '($&)'));
Better you just transform your original array. Loop through array and modify the char is not empty.
let myString = "This is my string";
let chars = [...myString].map(item => item !== ' ' ? '(' + item + ')': item)
console.log(chars.join(''))
Are you looking for this...
var result = "thisismystring".replace(/^(.{4})(.{2})(.{2})(.*)$/, "$1 $2 $3 $4");
alert(result);
const filter = ["bad1", "bad2"];
client.on("message", message => {
var content = message.content;
var stringToCheck = content.replace(/\s+/g, '').toLowerCase();
for (var i = 0; i < filter.length; i++) {
if (content.includes(filter[i])){
message.delete();
break
}
}
});
So my code above is a discord bot that deletes the words when someone writes ''bad1'' ''bad2''
(some more filtered bad words that i'm gonna add) and luckily no errors whatsoever.
But right now the bot only deletes these words when written in small letters without spaces in-between or special characters.
I think i have found a solution but i can't seem to put it into my code, i mean i tried different ways but it either deleted lowercase words or didn't react at all and instead i got errors like ''cannot read property of undefined'' etc.
var badWords = [
'bannedWord1',
'bannedWord2',
'bannedWord3',
'bannedWord4'
];
bot.on('message', message => {
var words = message.content.toLowerCase().trim().match(/\w+|\s+|[^\s\w]+/g);
var containsBadWord = words.some(word => {
return badWords.includes(word);
});
This is what i am looking at. the var words line. specifically (/\w+|\s+|[^\s\w]+/g);.
Anyway to implement that into my const filter code (top/above) or a different approach?
Thanks in advance.
Well, I'm not sure what you're trying to do with .match(/\w+|\s+|[^\s\w]+/g). That's some unnecessary regex just to get an array of words and spaces. And it won't even work if someone were to split their bad word into something like "t h i s".
If you want your filter to be case insensitive and account for spaces/special characters, a better solution would probably require more than one regex, and separate checks for the split letters and the normal bad word check. And you need to make sure your split letters check is accurate, otherwise something like "wash it" might be considered a bad word despite the space between the words.
A Solution
So here's a possible solution. Note that it is just a solution, and is far from the only solution. I'm just going to use hard-coded string examples instead of message.content, to allow this to be in a working snippet:
//Our array of bad words
var badWords = [
'bannedWord1',
'bannedWord2',
'bannedWord3',
'bannedWord4'
];
//A function that tests if a given string contains a bad word
function testProfanity(string) {
//Removes all non-letter, non-digit, and non-space chars
var normalString = string.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/g, "");
//Replaces all non-letter, non-digit chars with spaces
var spacerString = string.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, " ");
//Checks if a condition is true for at least one element in badWords
return badWords.some(swear => {
//Removes any non-letter, non-digit chars from the bad word (for normal)
var filtered = swear.replace(/\W/g, "");
//Splits the bad word into a 's p a c e d' word (for spaced)
var spaced = filtered.split("").join(" ");
//Two different regexes for normal and spaced bad word checks
var checks = {
spaced: new RegExp(`\\b${spaced}\\b`, "gi"),
normal: new RegExp(`\\b${filtered}\\b`, "gi")
};
//If the normal or spaced checks are true in the string, return true
//so that '.some()' will return true for satisfying the condition
return spacerString.match(checks.spaced) || normalString.match(checks.normal);
});
}
var result;
//Includes one banned word; expected result: true
var test1 = "I am a bannedWord1";
result = testProfanity(test1);
console.log(result);
//Includes one banned word; expected result: true
var test2 = "I am a b a N_N e d w o r d 2";
result = testProfanity(test2);
console.log(result);
//Includes one banned word; expected result: true
var test3 = "A bann_eD%word4, I am";
result = testProfanity(test3);
console.log(result);
//Includes no banned words; expected result: false
var test4 = "No banned words here";
result = testProfanity(test4);
console.log(result);
//This is a tricky one. 'bannedWord2' is technically present in this string,
//but is 'bannedWord22' really the same? This prevents something like
//"wash it" from being labeled a bad word; expected result: false
var test5 = "Banned word 22 isn't technically on the list of bad words...";
result = testProfanity(test5);
console.log(result);
I've commented each line thoroughly, such that you understand what I am doing in each line. And here it is again, without the comments or testing parts:
var badWords = [
'bannedWord1',
'bannedWord2',
'bannedWord3',
'bannedWord4'
];
function testProfanity(string) {
var normalString = string.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/g, "");
var spacerString = string.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, " ");
return badWords.some(swear => {
var filtered = swear.replace(/\W/g, "");
var spaced = filtered.split("").join(" ");
var checks = {
spaced: new RegExp(`\\b${spaced}\\b`, "gi"),
normal: new RegExp(`\\b${filtered}\\b`, "gi")
};
return spacerString.match(checks.spaced) || normalString.match(checks.normal);
});
}
Explanation
As you can see, this filter is able to deal with all sorts of punctuation, capitalization, and even single spaces/symbols in between the letters of a bad word. However, note that in order to avoid the "wash it" scenario I described (potentially resulting in the unintentional deletion of a clean message), I made it so that something like "bannedWord22" would not be treated the same as "bannedWord2". If you want it to do the opposite (therefore treating "bannedWord22" the same as "bannedWord2"), you must remove both of the \\b phrases in the normal check's regex.
I will also explain the regex, such that you fully understand what is going on here:
[^a-zA-Z0-9 ] means "select any character not in the ranges of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, or space" (meaning all characters not in those specified ranges will be replaced with an empty string, essentially removing them from the string).
\W means "select any character that is not a word character", where "word character" refers to the characters in ranges a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and underscore.
\b means "word boundary", essentially indicating when a word starts or stops. This includes spaces, the beginning of a line, and the end of a line. \b is escaped with an additional \ (to become \\b) in order to prevent javascript from confusing the regex token with strings' escape sequences.
The flags g and i used in both of the regex checks indicate "global" and "case-insensitive", respectively.
Of course, to get this working with your discord bot, all you have to do in your message handler is something like this (and be sure to replace badWords with your filter variable in testProfanity()):
if (testProfanity(message.content)) return message.delete();
If you want to learn more about regex, or if you want to mess around with it and/or test it out, this is a great resource for doing so.
I am getting very confused in writing the regex pattern for my requirement.
I want that a text field should not accept any special character except underscore and hyphen. Also, it shouldn't accept underscore, hyphen, and space if entered alone in the text field.
I tried following pattern->
/[ !##$%^&*()+\=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/;
but this is also allowing underscore and hyphen, as well as space if entered alone.
Rather than matching what you do not want, you should match what you actually want. Since you never specified if you string could have letter, number and spaces in it, i just assumed it was a single word, so I matched uppercase and lowercase letters only, with underscore and hyphen.
^(([A-Za-z])+([\-|_ ])?)+$
I have created a regex101 if you wish to try more cases.
If you want your string not to contain special characters except underscore and hyphen. But there is an exception for that if they contain space with the hyphen and underscore, then you can handle that exception separately. This will make your code easier to understand and easily adaptable for further exceptions.
function validateString(str){
let reg = /[^!##$%^&*()+\=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]/g;
let match = str.match(reg);
console.log(match);
if(match && (match.includes(" ") || match.includes("_") || match.includes("-")) && (!match.join(",").match(/[a-zA-Z]/))){
// regex contains invalid characters
console.log(str + ": Invalid input");
}
else if(match){
console.log(str + ": Valid string");
}
}
let str = "-_ ";
let str1 = "Mathus-Mark";
let str2 = "Mathus Mark";
let str3 = "Mathus_Mark";
let str4 = " ";
let str5 = "-";
let str6 = "_";
validateString(str);
validateString(str1);
validateString(str2);
validateString(str3);
validateString(str4);
validateString(str5);
validateString(str6);
$("#topNav" + $("#breadCrumb2nd").text().replace(" ", "")).addClass("current");
This is a snippet from my code. I want to add a class to an ID after getting another ID's text property. The problem with this, is the ID holding the text I need, contains gaps between the letters.
I would like the white spaces removed. I have tried TRIM()and REPLACE() but this only partially works. The REPLACE() only removes the 1st space.
You have to tell replace() to repeat the regex:
.replace(/ /g,'')
The g character makes it a "global" match, meaning it repeats the search through the entire string. Read about this, and other RegEx modifiers available in JavaScript here.
If you want to match all whitespace, and not just the literal space character, use \s instead:
.replace(/\s/g,'')
You can also use .replaceAll if you're using a sufficiently recent version of JavaScript, but there's not really any reason to for your specific use case, since catching all whitespace requires a regex, and when using a regex with .replaceAll, it must be global, so you just end up with extra typing:
.replaceAll(/\s/g,'')
.replace(/\s+/, "")
Will replace the first whitespace only, this includes spaces, tabs and new lines.
To replace all whitespace in the string you need to use global mode
.replace(/\s/g, "")
Now you can use "replaceAll":
console.log(' a b c d e f g '.replaceAll(' ',''));
will print:
abcdefg
But not working in every possible browser:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replaceAll
Regex for remove white space
\s+
var str = "Visit Microsoft!";
var res = str.replace(/\s+/g, "");
console.log(res);
or
[ ]+
var str = "Visit Microsoft!";
var res = str.replace(/[ ]+/g, "");
console.log(res);
Remove all white space at begin of string
^[ ]+
var str = " Visit Microsoft!";
var res = str.replace(/^[ ]+/g, "");
console.log(res);
remove all white space at end of string
[ ]+$
var str = "Visit Microsoft! ";
var res = str.replace(/[ ]+$/g, "");
console.log(res);
var mystring="fg gg";
console.log(mystring.replaceAll(' ',''))
** 100% working
use replace(/ +/g,'_'):
let text = "I love you"
text = text.replace( / +/g, '_') // replace with underscore ('_')
console.log(text) // I_love_you
Using String.prototype.replace with regex, as mentioned in the other answers, is certainly the best solution.
But, just for fun, you can also remove all whitespaces from a text by using String.prototype.split and String.prototype.join:
const text = ' a b c d e f g ';
const newText = text.split(/\s/).join('');
console.log(newText); // prints abcdefg
I don't understand why we need to use regex here when we can simply use replaceAll
let result = string.replaceAll(' ', '')
result will store string without spaces
let str = 'a big fat hen clock mouse '
console.log(str.split(' ').join(''))
// abigfathenclockmouse
Use string.replace(/\s/g,'')
This will solve the problem.
Happy Coding !!!
simple solution could be : just replace white space ask key value
val = val.replace(' ', '')
Use replace(/\s+/g,''),
for example:
const stripped = ' My String With A Lot Whitespace '.replace(/\s+/g, '')// 'MyStringWithALotWhitespace'
Well, we can also use that [^A-Za-z] with g flag for removing all the spaces in text. Where negated or complemente or ^. Show to the every character or range of character which is inside the brackets. And the about g is indicating that we search globally.
let str = "D S# D2m4a r k 23";
// We are only allowed the character in that range A-Za-z
str = str.replace(/[^A-Za-z]/g,""); // output:- DSDmark
console.log(str)
javascript - Remove ALL white spaces from text - Stack Overflow
Using .replace(/\s+/g,'') works fine;
Example:
this.slug = removeAccent(this.slug).replace(/\s+/g,'');
function RemoveAllSpaces(ToRemove)
{
let str = new String(ToRemove);
while(str.includes(" "))
{
str = str.replace(" ", "");
}
return str;
}
Given a string like:
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
What kind of jQuery or JavaScript magic can be used to keep spaces to only one space max?
Goal:
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
Given that you also want to cover tabs, newlines, etc, just replace \s\s+ with ' ':
string = string.replace(/\s\s+/g, ' ');
If you really want to cover only spaces (and thus not tabs, newlines, etc), do so:
string = string.replace(/ +/g, ' ');
Since you seem to be interested in performance, I profiled these with firebug. Here are the results I got:
str.replace( / +/g, ' ' ) -> 380ms
str.replace( /\s\s+/g, ' ' ) -> 390ms
str.replace( / {2,}/g, ' ' ) -> 470ms
str.replace( / +/g, ' ' ) -> 790ms
str.replace( / +(?= )/g, ' ') -> 3250ms
This is on Firefox, running 100k string replacements.
I encourage you to do your own profiling tests with firebug, if you think performance is an issue. Humans are notoriously bad at predicting where the bottlenecks in their programs lie.
(Also, note that IE 8's developer toolbar also has a profiler built in -- it might be worth checking what the performance is like in IE.)
var str = "The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!";
str = str.replace(/ {2,}/g,' ');
EDIT:
If you wish to replace all kind of whitespace characters the most efficient way would be like that:
str = str.replace(/\s{2,}/g,' ');
A more robust method: This takes care of also removing the initial and trailing spaces, if they exist. Eg:
// NOTE the possible initial and trailing spaces
var str = " The dog has a long tail, and it is RED! "
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, "");
// str -> "The dog has a long tail, and it is RED !"
Your example didn't have those spaces but they are a very common scenario too, and the accepted answer was only trimming those into single spaces, like: " The ... RED! ", which is not what you will typically need.
This is one solution, though it will target all space characters:
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!".replace(/\s\s+/g, ' ')
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
Edit: This is probably better since it targets a space followed by 1 or more spaces:
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!".replace(/ +/g, ' ')
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
Alternative method:
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!".replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ')
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
I didn't use /\s+/ by itself since that replaces spaces that span 1 character multiple times and might be less efficient since it targets more than necessary.
I didn't deeply test any of these so lmk if there are bugs.
Also, if you're going to do string replacement remember to re-assign the variable/property to its own replacement, eg:
var string = 'foo'
string = string.replace('foo', '')
Using jQuery.prototype.text:
var el = $('span:eq(0)');
el.text( el.text().replace(/\d+/, '') )
I have this method, I call it the Derp method for lack of a better name.
while (str.indexOf(" ") !== -1) {
str = str.replace(/ /g, " ");
}
Running it in JSPerf gives some surprising results where it beat some of the more sophisticated approaches EDIT Original JSPerf link http://jsperf.com/removing-multiple-spaces/3 seems to be dead at the time
Here is an alternate solution if you do not want to use replace (replace spaces in a string without using replace javascript)
var str="The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!";
var rule=/\s{1,}/g;
str = str.split(rule).join(" ");
document.write(str);
More robust:
function trim(word)
{
word = word.replace(/[^\x21-\x7E]+/g, ' '); // change non-printing chars to spaces
return word.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // remove leading/trailing spaces
}
I suggest
string = string.replace(/ +/g," ");
for just spaces OR
string = string.replace(/(\s)+/g,"$1");
for turning multiple returns into a single return also.
Also a possibility:
str.replace( /\s+/g, ' ' )
I know that I am late to the party, but I discovered a nice solution.
Here it is:
var myStr = myStr.replace(/[ ][ ]*/g, ' ');
Comprehensive unencrypted answer for newbies et al.
This is for all of the dummies like me who test the scripts written by some of you guys which do not work.
The following 3 examples are the steps I took to remove special characters AND extra spaces on the following 3 websites (all of which work perfectly) {1. EtaVisa.com 2. EtaStatus.com 3. Tikun.com} so I know that these work perfectly.
We have chained these together with over 50 at a time and NO problems.
// This removed special characters + 0-9 and allows for just letters (upper and LOWER case)
function NoDoublesPls1()
{
var str=document.getElementById("NoDoubles1");
var regex=/[^a-z]/gi;
str.value=str.value.replace(regex ,"");
}
// This removed special characters and allows for just letters (upper and LOWER case) and 0-9 AND spaces
function NoDoublesPls2()
{
var str=document.getElementById("NoDoubles2");
var regex=/[^a-z 0-9]/gi;
str.value=str.value.replace(regex ,"");
}
// This removed special characters and allows for just letters (upper and LOWER case) and 0-9 AND spaces
// The .replace(/\s\s+/g, " ") at the end removes excessive spaces
// when I used single quotes, it did not work.
function NoDoublesPls3()
{ var str=document.getElementById("NoDoubles3");
var regex=/[^a-z 0-9]/gi;
str.value=str.value.replace(regex ,"") .replace(/\s\s+/g, " ");
}
::NEXT::
Save #3 as a .js // I called mine NoDoubles.js
::NEXT::
Include your JS into your page
<script language="JavaScript" src="js/NoDoubles.js"></script>
Include this in your form field:: such as
<INPUT type="text" name="Name"
onKeyUp="NoDoublesPls3()" onKeyDown="NoDoublesPls3()" id="NoDoubles3"/>
So that it looks like this
<INPUT type="text" name="Name" onKeyUp="NoDoublesPls3()" onKeyDown="NoDoublesPls3()" id="NoDoubles3"/>
This will remove special characters, allow for single spaces and remove extra spaces.
var string = "The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!";
var replaced = string.replace(/ +/g, " ");
Or if you also want to replace tabs:
var replaced = string.replace(/\s+/g, " ");
// replace multiple white spaces with one white space
String replacedDisplayName = displayName.replaceAll("\\s{2,}", " ");
var myregexp = new RegExp(/ {2,}/g);
str = str.replace(myregexp,' ');
var text = `xxx df dfvdfv df
dfv`.split(/[\s,\t,\r,\n]+/).filter(x=>x).join(' ');
result:
"xxx df dfvdfv df dfv"
I know we have to use regex, but during an interview, I was asked to do WITHOUT USING REGEX.
#slightlytyler helped me in coming with the below approach.
const testStr = "I LOVE STACKOVERFLOW LOL";
const removeSpaces = str => {
const chars = str.split('');
const nextChars = chars.reduce(
(acc, c) => {
if (c === ' ') {
const lastChar = acc[acc.length - 1];
if (lastChar === ' ') {
return acc;
}
}
return [...acc, c];
},
[],
);
const nextStr = nextChars.join('');
return nextStr
};
console.log(removeSpaces(testStr));
here is my solutions that work well for me:
var text = " Tes ddas dMd WAlkman 3Dsfd "
.toLowerCase()
.replace(/\b\s+/g, " ")
.replace(/\b\w/g, s => s.toUpperCase())
.trimStart()
.trimEnd();
console.log(text);
// result: Tes Ddas Dmd Walkman 3dsfd
We can use the following regex explained with the help of sed system command. The similar regex can be used in other languages and platforms.
Add the text into some file say test
manjeet-laptop:Desktop manjeet$ cat test
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
We can use the following regex to replace all white spaces with single space
manjeet-laptop:Desktop manjeet$ sed 's/ \{1,\}/ /g' test
"The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!"
Hope this serves the purpose
Try this to replace multiple spaces with a single space.
<script type="text/javascript">
var myStr = "The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!";
alert(myStr); // Output 'The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!'
var newStr = myStr.replace(/ +/g, ' ');
alert(newStr); // Output 'The dog has a long tail, and it is RED!'
</script>
Read more # Replacing Multiple Spaces with Single Space
For more control you can use the replace callback to handle the value.
value = "tags:HUNT tags:HUNT tags:HUNT tags:HUNT"
value.replace(new RegExp(`(?:\\s+)(?:tags)`, 'g'), $1 => ` ${$1.trim()}`)
//"tags:HUNT tags:HUNT tags:HUNT tags:HUNT"
This script removes any white space (multiple spaces, tabs, returns, etc) between words and trims:
// Trims & replaces any wihtespacing to single space between words
String.prototype.clearExtraSpace = function(){
var _trimLeft = /^\s+/,
_trimRight = /\s+$/,
_multiple = /\s+/g;
return this.replace(_trimLeft, '').replace(_trimRight, '').replace(_multiple, ' ');
};
' mouse pointer touch '.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|(\s)+/g, "$1") should do the trick!
Using nodepad++ function, below regex works fine for me,
Find: {1}\K\s+
Replace:leave it empty
let nameCorrection = function (str) {
let strPerfect = str.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
let strSmall = strPerfect.toLowerCase();
let arrSmall = strSmall.split(" ");
let arrCapital = [];
for (let x of arrSmall.values()) {
arrCapital.push(x[0].toUpperCase() + x.slice(1));
}
let result = arrCapital.join(" ");
console.log(result);
};
nameCorrection("Pradeep kumar dHital");
def removeblanks(text): return re.sub(r'\s\s+'," ",text)
I was working on a large textual data with a lot of duplicate spaces.
The above RE worked for me. All the duplicate blank spaces were replaced by a single space.