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const p = 'dog dog cat rat';
const regex = /dog/gi;
console.log(p.replace(regex, 'cow'));
//if pattern is regular expression all matches will be replaced
//output: "cow cow cat rat"
console.log(p.replace('dog', 'cow'));
// If pattern is a string, only the first occurrence will be replaced.
//output: "cow dog cat rat"
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var string = "golden vigor doers goat";
var replacedString = string.replace("go", "GO");
console.log(replacedString);
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let text = "I love you"
text = text.replace( / +/g, '_') // replace with underscore ('_')
console.log(text) // I_love_you
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let string = 'soandso, my name is soandso';
let replaced = string.replace(/soandso/gi, 'Dylan');
console.log(replaced); //Dylan, my name is Dylan
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var str = "Please locate where 'locate' occurs!";
str.replace("locate", "W3Schools"); //replace only replace first match from string
str.replace(/LOCATE/i, "W3Schools"); // i makes it case insensitive
str.replace(/LOCATE/g, "W3Schools"); // g replace all matches from string rather than replacing only first
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const string = "Hello world"
const modified = string.replace("world", "developers")
console.log(string)
// Hello world
console.log(modified)
// Hello developers
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var string = "Javascript is fun";
var newString = string.replace("fun", "Awesome");
console.log(newString); // Javascript is Awesome
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const p = 'Its going to rain today and its going to rain tomorrow';
// Example of replacing all occurrances
// g = global search, which searches all instances
// i = case insensitive, which will match 'a' with 'A'
const regex = /rain/gi;
console.log(p.replace(regex, 'snow'));
// expected output: "Its going to snow today and its going to snow tomorrow"
// Example of replacing the first occurance
console.log(p.replace('rain', 'snow'));
// expected output: "Its going to snow today and its going to rain tomorrow"