JavaScript Code

How to remove all occurrences of specific character from string?


Problem Statement

given a string and a specific character, remove all occurrences of the specified character from the string, using JavaScript

Solution

to replace all occurrences of specified character ch from the given string using JavaScript, use String replace() method

call replace() method on the string, and pass the specific character ch as regular expression with global search /ch/g, and an empty replacement string '', as arguments

myStr.replace(/ch/g, '')

with this setup, replace() method returns a new string with all the occurrences of the specified character ch removed from the given string

Program

1. given string is str. remove all the occurrences of the character 'a' from the string str

let str = 'apple banana cherry';
let output = str.replace(/a/g, '');
console.log(output);