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Replacing all occurrences of a substring with another string is a common operation.
Unfortunately, doing this correctly is surprisingly hard in JavaScript. 🤯
The new String.prototype.replaceAll API is here to help! 🎉
v8.dev/features/strin… pic.twitter.com/zzwqmXQD91
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Lucas Engel
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What exactly is the issue with using the regexp?
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Mathias Bynens
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It’s explained in the write-up. (Spoiler: you have to remember to escape special RegExp chars + to use the g flag.)
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Amandeep Kochhar
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Yay!! All these v8 features are supported using babel or directly using latest chrome version?
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Mathias Bynens
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See v8.dev/features/strin… — for now, you’ll have to use Babel/polyfills. But the functionality is coming to browsers soon! Both @SpiderMonkeyJS and @v8js already have flagged implementations.
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Sebastião Tolentino
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But this only work on browser! The replace method with regex works in node too.
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Mathias Bynens
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What makes you say that? Once a version of @v8js supporting replaceAll rolls into Node.js, it will work there as well, like any other language feature.
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Dayton Lowell
@daytonlowell
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Oh hey, you created the WebKit bug report. Anyway, it’s not linked in that article. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Mathias Bynens
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Feel free to submit a PR that adds the link! I didn’t because there has been no real activity on the bug yet.
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Noah Rodenbeek
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"constant"
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Mathias Bynens
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What are you referring to?
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