Description

In this article, you will learn how to use regular expressions or regex to replace a particular word in a string or remove certain characters/digits from a string.

Instructions

Here are two examples of how to do that.

A) Replacing a word in a string

For this example, imagine you want to replace the term "blue" with "red" in the following sentence:

1. Select the "Calculate a value" option and type str.replace(/blue/g, "red").

2. As a result, the new string must look like this:

B) Removing digits or characters from a string

 

Have a look at the following example and imagine you want to delete the digits from the string. Follow the steps below:

1. Select the "Calculate a value" option and type str.replace(/[0-9]/g, '')

2. As a result, the new string must look like this: