Replace underscores in string

Question

I have a string var string = "my__st_ri_ng". I want to replace all underscores with single space and I want to store it it another variable. Each underscore should have a space replacement, which means multiple consecutive underscores should have respective number of empty spaces. I want to get my mentioned variable as my<sp><sp>st<sp>ri<sp>ng. How can I do this using jquery??

Thanks in advance...:)

blasteralfred

Answer 1

What you need is Javascript's replace function.

var str1 = "my__st_ri_ng";
var str2 = str1.replace(/_/g, ' ');

You do not need jQuery at all for this task...

Answer 2

To replace all occurrences of _, use a regular expression with the g (global) flag.

"my__st_ri_ng".replace(/_/g, " "); // "my  st ri ng"

Answer 3

Try this...

var oldStr = 'I_told_you';

var newStr = oldStr.split('_').join(' ');

Answer 4

You don't need jQuery or even RegEx, just simple JavaSript:

var newStr = oldStr.replace('_', ' ');