I have the following string:
var my_fruits = "Apples, Bananas, Mangos, Blackberries, Oranges";
I want to remove "Mangos" (or any other fruit by giving a name) so that the new string would look like this:
"Apples, Bananas, Blackberries, Oranges".
How can i achieve this with/without JQuery?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
One approach uisng using an array, you can use $.grep() to filter an array you create from splitting based on the comma, like this:
var my_fruits = "Apples, Bananas, Mangos, Blackberries, Oranges";
var result = $.grep(my_fruits.split(', '), function(v) { return v != "Mangos"; }).join(', ');
alert(result);
You can test it here. Or in function form (since you want to pass in what to filter out):
function filterOut(my_str, t) { //string, term
return $.grep(my_str.split(', '), function(v) { return v != t; }).join(', ');
}
You can perform a replace using a regular expression:
myFruits = myFruits.replace(/\bMangos(, |$)/gi, "");
The \b will match a word boundary.
The (, |$) will match either a , or the end of the string.
new Regex("\\b" + name + "(, |$)", "gi")