jquery search and replace text from nth occurrence

Question

Input data = '/hello/world/test'

I need output like 'hello-world-test' in jquery.

I have tried splice,replace method and also a customize condition(sample code below). But still im not able to get the result.

var split_data=data.split('/');
var new_data='';
        $.each(split_data,function(x){
            if(x!=0){
                new_data=split_data[x]+'-'
            }
        });
        console.log("new"+new_data); // Output : hello-world-test-

Here again I have to remove the last hypen in the output string. So is there anyway to accomplish my output.

By the way Im not expert in jquery.

Have a look at this URL. you need to replace all occurenences and then take substring from position '1' to length -1 of a string. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144783/replacing-all-occurrences-of-a-string-in-javascript — sohail.hussain.dyn, Oct 26 '13 at 20:08

gdoron · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-26T20:03:23.977

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Just use regex and slice the first char:

str = str.slice(1).replace(/\//g,'-');

replace on MDN

Live DEMO

_{You really shouldn't use jQuery for string manipulations}

edited Oct 26 '13 at 20:03

answered Oct 26 '13 at 19:57

gdoron

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this will give output as '-hello-world-test', but i dont want that hyphen at index 0 – Darknight Oct 26 '13 at 19:58
@PSivachandran, sorry, I didn't see the first hyphen. Fixed. – gdoron Oct 26 '13 at 20:00
Efficient answer its what I was going to suggest – Dominic Green Oct 26 '13 at 20:04

jquery search and replace text from nth occurrence

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