Replace multiple strings with multiple other strings

Question

I\'m trying to replace multiple words in a string with multiple other words. The string is \"I have a cat, a dog, and a goat.\"

However, this does not produce \"I ha

Answer 1

I expanded on @BenMcCormicks a bit. His worked for regular strings but not if I had escaped characters or wildcards. Here's what I did

str = "[curl] 6: blah blah 234433 blah blah";
mapObj = {'\\[curl] *': '', '\\d: *': ''};


function replaceAll (str, mapObj) {

    var arr = Object.keys(mapObj),
        re;

    $.each(arr, function (key, value) {
        re = new RegExp(value, "g");
        str = str.replace(re, function (matched) {
            return mapObj[value];
        });
    });

    return str;

}
replaceAll(str, mapObj)

returns "blah blah 234433 blah blah"

This way it will match the key in the mapObj and not the matched word'