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Tomer
Tomer

Reputation: 17930

replace all spaces in specific places using javascript

I have a string like:

image.id."HashiCorp Terraform Team <[email protected]>" 
AND  image.label."some string"."some other string"

I want to replace all spaces with '___' just for the strings that are surrounded with quotes, so the final string will look like:

  image.id."HashiCorp___Terraform___Team___<[email protected]>" 
    AND  image.label."some___string"."some___other___string"

I've tried this: 

text = text.replace(/"(\w+\s+)+/gi, function (a) {
                return a.replace(' ', _delimiter);
            });

But it only replaces the first space, so i get: HashiCorp___Terraform Team <[email protected]>. and some___other string

I'm very bad with regexp so I'm probably doing something wrong :(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 273

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626689

You may use a /"[^"]+"/g regex to match substrings between two " chars and then replace whitespace chars inside a callback method:

var text = 'image.id."HashiCorp Terraform Team <[email protected]>" \nAND  image.label."some string"."some other string"';
var _delimiter = "___";
text = text.replace(/"[^"]+"/g, function (a) {
          return a.replace(/\s/g, _delimiter);
});
console.log(text);

The "[^"]+" pattern matches a ", then 1 or more chars other than " and then a closing ". The a variable holds the match value and a.replace(/\s/g, _delimiter) replaces each single whitespace char inside the match value with the "delimiter".

Upvotes: 3

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