如何从javascript中的字符串数组中删除字符模式？

Question

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I have an array of strings. Each string represents a path. I need to remove everything before the locale code in this path. I would like this to return a new array of clean paths.

Question: How to write and use arr.filter() to match() then remove all locale's pattern from the original string.

Code:

var thingy = ['thing/all-br/home/gosh-1.png','thing/ar_all/about/100_gosh.png','thing/br-pt/anything/a_noway.jpg'];
var reggy = new RegExp('/[a-z]{2}-[a-z]{2}|[a-z]{2}_[a-z]{2}/g');


var newThing = thingy.filter(function(item){
       return result = item.match(reggy);
    });

In the end, I would like to filter that original array thingy to newThing which the output should looks like:

console.log(newThing);
// ['home/gosh1.png','about/gosh.png','place/1noway.jpg']

Answer 1

If you want to transform the items in the array, filter isn't the right tool; map is the tool you use.

It looks like you just want to drop the middle part of the path:

 var thingy = ['home/all-br/gosh1.png', 'about/ar_all/gosh.png', 'place/br-pt/noway.jpg']; var newThing = thingy.map(function(entry) { return entry.replace(/\\/[^\\/]+/, ''); }); snippet.log(JSON.stringify(newThing)); 

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That uses /\\/[^\\/]+/ , which matches a slash followed by any sequence of non-slashes, and then usese String#replace to replace that with a blank string.

If you wanted to use capture groups instead to capture the segments you wanted, you'd do much the same thing, just change what you do in the map callback, and have it return the string you want for that entry.

Just as an example of changing things slightly, here's a similar thing that captures the first and last segments and reassembles them without the part of the middle:

 var thingy = ['home/all-br/gosh1.png', 'about/ar_all/gosh.png', 'place/br-pt/noway.jpg']; var newThing = thingy.map(function(entry) { var match = entry.match(/^([^\\/]+)\\/.*\\/([^\\/]+)$/); return match ? match[1] + "/" + match[2] : entry; }); snippet.log(JSON.stringify(newThing)); 

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Tweak as necessary.