Does javascript have a method to replace part of a string without creating a new string?

Question

var str = \"This is a string\";
var thing = str.replace(\"string\",\"thing\");

console.log( str )
>> \"This is a string\" 

console.log( thing )
>> \"Th         


        

Answer 1

Not that i am aware of, however if the reason you want to do this is just to keep your code clean you can just assign the new string the the old variable:

var string = "This is a string";
string = string.replace("string", "thing");

Of course this will just make the code look a bit cleaner and still create a new string.