Match & Replace every "Second" occurrence of ", in Javascript

Question

I want to replace every second occurrence of ", (DoubleQuote comma) with "." (Dot)

E.g.

"With all my will, but much against my heart", "We two now part", "My Very Dear", "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear",

Should be:

  "With all my will, but much against my heart",
  "We two now part.
  "My Very Dear",
  "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear.

Possible duplicate of [regular expression capture nth match](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23555593/regular-expression-capture-nth-match) — Robbie Milejczak, Nov 09 '17 at 15:03
Can you include the code that you have tried to resolve inquiry at Question? — guest271314, Nov 09 '17 at 15:05

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 10 '17 at 05:46

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Try using split followed by reduce as shown below

Demo

var input = `"With all my will, but much against my heart",
  "We two now part",
  "My Very Dear",
  "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear",`
console.log( input.split( /",/ ).reduce( (a,b, i) => i %2 == 0 ? a + "\"," + b : a + "." + b ) );

console.log("It does the trick but it starts from the first line!");

edited Nov 10 '17 at 05:46

Ajinkya Bapat

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answered Nov 09 '17 at 15:13

gurvinder372

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Match & Replace every "Second" occurrence of ", in Javascript

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