Coming from a PHP background, I am a little spoiled with the str_replace
function which you can pass an array of haystacks & needles.
I have yet not seen such a function in Javascript, but I have managed to get the job done, altough ugly, with the below shown code:
return myString.replace(" ", "-").replace("&", ",");
However, as my need to replace certain characters with another character grows, I am sure that there's much better ways of accomplishing this - both performance-wise and prettier.
So what can I do instead?
You can use this:
var str = "How are you doing?";
var replace = new Array(" ", "[\?]", "\!", "\%", "\&");
var by = new Array("-", "", "", "", "and");
for (var i=0; i<replace.length; i++) {
str = str.replace(new RegExp(replace[i], "g"), by[i]);
}
Putting that into a function:
function str_replace(replace, by, str) {
for (var i=0; i<replace.length; i++) {
str = str.replace(new RegExp(replace[i], "g"), by[i]);
}
return str;
}
Usage example fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rtLKr/