I am so close to getting this, but it just isn't right.
All I would like to do is remove the character r
from a string.
The problem is, there is more than one instance of r
in the string.
However, it is always the character at index 4 (so the 5th character).
Example string: crt/r2002_2
What I want: crt/2002_2
This replace function removes both r
mystring.replace(/r/g, '')
Produces: ct/2002_2
I tried this function:
String.prototype.replaceAt = function (index, char) {
return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + char.length);
}
mystring.replaceAt(4, '')
It only works if I replace it with another character. It will not simply remove it.
Any thoughts?
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let str = '1234567';
let index = 3;
str = str.substring(0, index) + str.substring(index + 1);
console.log(str) // 123567 - number "4" under index "3" is removed
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var mystring = "crt/r2002_2";
mystring = mystring.replace('/r','/');
will replace /r
with /
using String.prototype.replace
.
Alternatively you could use regex with a global flag (as suggested by Erik Reppen & Sagar Gala, below) to replace all occurrences with
mystring = mystring.replace(/\/r/g, '/');
EDIT: Since everyone's having so much fun here and user1293504 doesn't seem to be coming back any time soon to answer clarifying questions, here's a method to remove the Nth character from a string:
String.prototype.removeCharAt = function (i) {
var tmp = this.split(''); // convert to an array
tmp.splice(i - 1 , 1); // remove 1 element from the array (adjusting for non-zero-indexed counts)
return tmp.join(''); // reconstruct the string
}
console.log("crt/r2002_2".removeCharAt(4));
Since user1293504 used the normal count instead of a zero-indexed count, we've got to remove 1 from the index, if you wish to use this to replicate how charAt
works do not subtract 1 from the index on the 3rd line and use tmp.splice(i, 1)
instead.
For global replacement of '/r', this code worked for me.
mystring = mystring.replace(/\/r/g,'');
There's always the string functions, if you know you're always going to remove the fourth character:
str.slice(0, 4) + str.slice(5, str.length))
I dislike using replace function to remove characters from string. This is not logical to do it like that. Usually I program in C# (Sharp), and whenever I want to remove characters from string, I use the Remove method of the String class, but no Replace method, even though it exists, because when I am about to remove, I remove, no replace. This is logical!
In Javascript, there is no remove function for string, but there is substr function. You can use the substr function once or twice to remove characters from string. You can make the following function to remove characters at start index to the end of string, just like the c# method first overload String.Remove(int startIndex):
function Remove(str, startIndex) {
return str.substr(0, startIndex);
}
and/or you also can make the following function to remove characters at start index and count, just like the c# method second overload String.Remove(int startIndex, int count):
function Remove(str, startIndex, count) {
return str.substr(0, startIndex) + str.substr(startIndex + count);
}
and then you can use these two functions or one of them for your needs!
Example:
alert(Remove("crt/r2002_2", 4, 1));
Output: crt/2002_2
Achieving goals by doing techniques with no logic might cause confusions in understanding of the code, and future mistakes, if you do this a lot in a large project!
A simple functional javascript way would be
mystring = mystring.split('/r').join('/')
simple, fast, it replace globally and no need for functions or prototypes
The following function worked best for my case:
public static cut(value: string, cutStart: number, cutEnd: number): string {
return value.substring(0, cutStart) + value.substring(cutEnd + 1, value.length);
}
If it is always the 4th char in yourString you can try:
yourString.replace(/^(.{4})(r)/, function($1, $2) { return $2; });
The shortest way would be to use splice
var inputString = "abc";
// convert to array and remove 1 element at position 4 and save directly to the array itself
let result = inputString.split("").splice(3, 1).join();
console.log(result);
Your first func is almost right. Just remove the 'g' flag which stands for 'global' (edit) and give it some context to spot the second 'r'.
Edit: didn't see it was the second 'r' before so added the '/'. Needs \/ to escape the '/' when using a regEx arg. Thanks for the upvotes but I was wrong so I'll fix and add more detail for people interested in understanding the basics of regEx better but this would work:
mystring.replace(/\/r/, '/')
Now for the excessive explanation:
When reading/writing a regEx pattern think in terms of: <a character or set of charcters> followed by <a character or set of charcters> followed by <...
In regEx <a character or set of charcters> could be one at a time:
/each char in this pattern/
So read as e, followed by a, followed by c, etc...
Or a single <a character or set of charcters> could be characters described by a character class:
/[123!y]/
//any one of these
/[^123!y]/
//anything but one of the chars following '^' (very useful/performance enhancing btw)
Or expanded on to match a quantity of characters (but still best to think of as a single element in terms of the sequential pattern):
/a{2}/
//precisely two 'a' chars - matches identically as /aa/ would
/[aA]{1,3}/
//1-3 matches of 'a' or 'A'
/[a-zA-Z]+/
//one or more matches of any letter in the alphabet upper and lower
//'-' denotes a sequence in a character class
/[0-9]*/
//0 to any number of matches of any decimal character (/\d*/ would also work)
So smoosh a bunch together:
var rePattern = /[aA]{4,8}(Eat at Joes|Joes all you can eat)[0-5]+/g
var joesStr = 'aaaAAAaaEat at Joes123454321 or maybe aAaAJoes all you can eat098765';
joesStr.match(rePattern);
//returns ["aaaAAAaaEat at Joes123454321", "aAaAJoes all you can eat0"]
//without the 'g' after the closing '/' it would just stop at the first match and return:
//["aaaAAAaaEat at Joes123454321"]
And of course I've over-elaborated but my point was simply that this:
/cat/
is a series of 3 pattern elements (a thing followed by a thing followed by a thing).
And so is this:
/[aA]{4,8}(Eat at Joes|Joes all you can eat)[0-5]+/
As wacky as regEx starts to look, it all breaks down to series of things (potentially multi-character things) following each other sequentially. Kind of a basic point but one that took me a while to get past so I've gone overboard explaining it here as I think it's one that would help the OP and others new to regEx understand what's going on. The key to reading/writing regEx is breaking it down into those pieces.
In C# (Sharp), you can make an empty character as '\0'. Maybe you can do this:
String.prototype.replaceAt = function (index, char) {
return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + char.length);
}
mystring.replaceAt(4, '\0')
Search on google or surf on the interent and check if javascript allows you to make empty characters, like C# does. If yes, then learn how to do it, and maybe the replaceAt function will work at last, and you'll achieve what you want!
Finally that 'r' character will be removed!
You can use this: if ( str[4] === 'r' ) str = str.slice(0, 4) + str.slice(5)
Explanation:
if ( str[4] === 'r' )
Check if the 5th character is a 'r'
str.slice(0, 4)
Slice the string to get everything before the 'r'
+ str.slice(5)
Add the rest of the string.
Minified: s=s[4]=='r'?s.slice(0,4)+s.slice(5):s
[37 bytes!]
DEMO:
function remove5thR (s) {_x000D_
s=s[4]=='r'?s.slice(0,4)+s.slice(5):s;_x000D_
console.log(s); // log output_x000D_
}_x000D_
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remove5thR('crt/r2002_2') // > 'crt/2002_2'_x000D_
remove5thR('crt|r2002_2') // > 'crt|2002_2'_x000D_
remove5thR('rrrrr') // > 'rrrr'_x000D_
remove5thR('RRRRR') // > 'RRRRR' (no change)
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It only works if I replace it with another character. It will not simply remove it.
This is because when char
is equal to ""
, char.length
is 0, so your substrings combine to form the original string. Going with your code attempt, the following will work:
String.prototype.replaceAt = function (index, char) {
return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + 1);
// this will 'replace' the character at index with char ^
}
Create function like below
String.prototype.replaceAt = function (index, char) {
if(char=='') {
return this.slice(0,index)+this.substr(index+1 + char.length);
} else {
return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + char.length);
}
}
To replace give character like below
var a="12346";
a.replaceAt(4,'5');
and to remove character at definite index, give second parameter as empty string
a.replaceAt(4,'');
This is improvement of simpleigh answer (omit length)
s.slice(0, 4) + s.slice(5)
let s = "crt/r2002_2";
let o = s.slice(0, 4) + s.slice(5);
let delAtIdx = (s, i) => s.slice(0, i) + s.slice(i + 1); // this function remove letter at index i
console.log(o);
console.log(delAtIdx(s, 4));
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return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + char.length);
char.length
is zero. You need to add 1
in this case in order to skip character.
Just fix your replaceAt
:
String.prototype.replaceAt = function(index, charcount) {
return this.substr(0, index) + this.substr(index + charcount);
}
mystring.replaceAt(4, 1);
I'd call it removeAt
instead. :)
If you just want to remove single character and If you know index of a character you want to remove, you can use following function:
/**
* Remove single character at particular index from string
* @param {*} index index of character you want to remove
* @param {*} str string from which character should be removed
*/
function removeCharAtIndex(index, str) {
var maxIndex=index==0?0:index;
return str.substring(0, maxIndex) + str.substring(index, str.length)
}
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