Replace any words in a phrase using Regex in Jquery

Asked Mar 25 '21 at 17:44

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I have to remove words in a phrase (anywhere in it) and have this so far:

replace(/^(dog|cat) */, '');

This is working only if 'dog' or 'cat' are in the beginning of a phrase, but does not do the job if it is somewhere else. I see that the question is in this ^ symbol, but I am lacking knowledge to construct a complete query.

EDIT: The thing I need is something like this to work for other words in a string as well (including Cyrillic):

replace(/\s*\b(?:DOG|dog|СОБАКА|собака)\b/g, '');

edited Mar 25 '21 at 20:03

asked Mar 25 '21 at 17:44

Хомичус

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Use word boundaries, `replace(/\s*\b(?:dog|cat)\b/g, '');` – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 25 '21 at 17:46
@WiktorStribiżew How would you solve the issue of text like `cat sentence here.`? The regex removes leading whitespace only so you're left with a space before "sentence". – MonkeyZeus Mar 25 '21 at 17:53
@WiktorStribiżew Nevermind, I think I got it https://regex101.com/r/Yaorgi/1/ – MonkeyZeus Mar 25 '21 at 17:54
@MonkeyZeus `.trim()` will do. – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 25 '21 at 18:00
See how to build a [Unicode-aware word boundary](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66680139/replace-certain-arabic-words-in-text-string-using-javascript/66680311#66680311) here. – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 25 '21 at 18:45
I am trying to find it there, but no luck so far without the Regex knowledge :( The thing I need is something like this to work for other words in a string as well: replace(/\s*\b(?:DOG|dog|СОБАКА|собака)\b/g, ''); – Хомичус Mar 25 '21 at 19:59

Replace any words in a phrase using Regex in Jquery

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