Discussion on: My RegExp nightmare

[Ben Halpern]

Not alone. I rarely turn to Regex unless it's the absolute obvious choice or it's the existing pattern in the code I'm modifying (and even then, sometimes there's a reason to remove it).

That being said, regex can be the underlying implementation of friendlier interfaces.

[Abdul Qadir Luqman]

What do you use in place of regex?

[Meghan (she/her)]

You can implement a replaceAll function for Strings just using the built-in replace and regex:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    return this.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
}