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lanjes
lanjes

Reputation: 81

Jquery remove spaces in text

I have some code where I am getting certain text from a string, but I want the output to have no spaces. I have tried putting .replace(' ', ''); I certain parts of the code but it always stops the code from running

Here is the code im using below, it will output this text but I want it to output thistext

<div id="text"></div>

var text ='blah blah text-name="this text"';

const gettext = text;
const gettextoutput = [];
const re = /text-name="([^"]+)"/g;
let match;
while ((match = re.exec(gettext)) !== null) {
  gettextoutput.push(match[1]);

}

$("#text").append(gettextoutput);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 343

Answers (2)

Enthusiastic Developer
Enthusiastic Developer

Reputation: 762

Man, you can do it using vanilla javascript:

'text with spaces'.split(' ').join('')

Also, your initial code was on the right way. Try this:

'text with spaces'.replace(/\s/g, '')

Upvotes: 0

Luca Kiebel
Luca Kiebel

Reputation: 10096

Since you are assigning the matches to an array, you have to replace the spaces of all elements of that array, otherwise JavaScript will throw an error since Arrays don't have a replace method.

var text ='blah blah text-name="this text"';

const gettext = text;
const gettextoutput = [];
const re = /text-name="([^"]+)"/g;
let match;
while ((match = re.exec(gettext)) !== null) {
  gettextoutput.push(match[1]);

}

$("#text").append(gettextoutput.map(e => e.replace(" ", "")));
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="text"></div>

Upvotes: 1

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