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Replies for: 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, so...

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Abdul Qadir Luqman •

What do you use in place of regex?

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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);
}