Fastest method to replace all instances of a character in a string [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can use the following:

newStr = str.replace(/[^a-z0-9]/gi, '_');

or

newStr = str.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '_');

This is going to replace all the character that are not letter or numbers to ('_'). Simple change the underscore value for whatever you want to replace it.

Answer 2

// Find, Replace, Case
// i.e "Test to see if this works? (Yes|No)".replaceAll('(Yes|No)', 'Yes!');
// i.e.2 "Test to see if this works? (Yes|No)".replaceAll('(yes|no)', 'Yes!', true);
String.prototype.replaceAll = function(_f, _r, _c){ 

  var o = this.toString();
  var r = '';
  var s = o;
  var b = 0;
  var e = -1;
  if(_c){ _f = _f.toLowerCase(); s = o.toLowerCase(); }

  while((e=s.indexOf(_f)) > -1)
  {
    r += o.substring(b, b+e) + _r;
    s = s.substring(e+_f.length, s.length);
    b += e+_f.length;
  }

  // Add Leftover
  if(s.length>0){ r+=o.substring(o.length-s.length, o.length); }

  // Return New String
  return r;
};