jQuery Remove string from string

Question

I am trying to remove a string from a string in jQuery   Here is the string   username1  username2 and username3 like this post    I would like to remove username1  from this list  I tried adding the list to an array using  split       but I got an error  I m assuming the error is because not every word has a comma after it   I always want to remove the fist item from the list  username1 is just an example username  The first item will always be the username of the currently logged in user if they have liked this post   I have tried     var updated list       post like list   html   replace  username1                post like list   html updated list     But that didn t update the list  It does however update the list when using  text   instead of  html   but I have links inside the list which I need to preserve

User · Accepted Answer

pretty sure you just want the plain old replace function. use like this:

myString.replace('username1','');

i suppose if you want to remove the trailing comma do this instead:

myString.replace('username1,','');

edit:

here is your site specific code:

jQuery("#post_like_list-510").text().replace(...)

User · Answer

Pretty sure nobody answer your question to your exact terms  you want it for dynamic text  var newString   myString substring  myString indexOf         1  myString length      It takes a substring from the first comma  to the end

User · Answer

To add on nathan gonzalez answer  please note you need to assign the replaced object after calling replace function since it is not a mutator function   myString   myString replace  username1

User · Answer

If you just want to remove  username1  you can use a simple replace   name replace  username1         or you could use split like you mentioned   var name    username1  username2 and username3 like this post   split      1            h1   text name     jsfiddle example

User · Answer

I assume that the text  username1  is just a placeholder for what will eventually be an actual username  Assuming that     If the username is not allowed to have spaces  then just search for everything before the first space or comma  thus finding both  u1 likes this  and  u1  u2  and u3 like this    If it is allowed to have a space  it would probably be easier to wrap each username in it s own span tag server-side  before sending it to the client  and then just working with the span tags

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