I found a thread in the c# forums that's exactly what I need, but I need it in JavaScript. Basically I need regex that will put spaces between each character of a phrase.
For example,
TEST
would become
T E S T
Explanations would be helpful, and I'm new to this, so please be nice :)
I'm building my project in a program that only allows regex code, so it needs to be that.
"TEST".replace(/(.)(?=.)/g, "$1 ")
// Outputs
// => T E S T
(.) Matches a single character. Captures in group 1($1)
(?=.) Positive look ahead. Checks if the captured character is followed by another character.
"$1 " Replacement string. $1 Contains the character captured in group 1, followed by a space
g Global modifier. Applies the replace globally for all the matches within the string.
You say you want this in JavaScript, then you edited your question (after I posted this answer) to say you must use a regex. Without that (strange, to me) requirement, you can do this with split() and join() in JavaScript without using a regex.
var myString = "TEST";
var result = myString.split('').join(' ');
console.log(result); // "T E S T"
For this and all the regular expression solutions so far provide, if you will have special characters, this will be problematic. For example 'foo 𝌆 bar'.split('').join(' '); returns an unexpected result. So does 'foo 𝌆 bar'.replace(/(.)(?=.)/g, "$1 "); and 'foo 𝌆 bar'.replace(/(.)(?!$)/g, "$1 "); as well. But if you know you are dealing with (say) ASCII-safe text, then there won't be any problems.
'foo 𝌆 bar'.split('').join(' ');
str.split("").join(" ");T E S T Abecome ?String#replaceto mutate a string based on the results of matching a regexp. However, if you are able to usereplace, then you are also able to usesplitandjoin.