How to replace all dots in a string using JavaScri

Question

I want to replace all the occurrences of a dot(.) in a JavaScript string

For example, I have:

var mystring = 'okay.this.is.a.string';

I want to get: okay this is a string.

So far I tried:

mystring.replace(/./g,' ')

but this ends up with all the string replaced to spaces.

Answer 1

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(character,replaceChar){
    var word = this.valueOf();

    while(word.indexOf(character) != -1)
        word = word.replace(character,replaceChar);

    return word;
}

Answer 2

str.replace(new RegExp(".","gm")," ")

Answer 3

I add double backslash to the dot to make it work. Cheer.

var st = "okay.this.is.a.string";
var Re = new RegExp("\\.","g");
st = st.replace(Re," ");
alert(st);

Answer 4

Example: I want to replace all double Quote (") into single Quote (') Then the code will be like this

var str= "\"Hello\""
var regex = new RegExp('"', 'g');
str = str.replace(regex, '\'');
console.log(str); // 'Hello'

Answer 5

One more solution which is easy to understand :)

var newstring = mystring.split('.').join(' ');

Answer 6

String.prototype.replaceAll = function (needle, replacement) {
    return this.replace(new RegExp(needle, 'g'), replacement);
};