替换所有字符串jQuery中的选项卡

Question

i have string and i need to replace tabs (white space) with "|"..the function work fine but the problem is there is more than one tab together so it show like this ( this||is|||text|||| ) and what i need is ( this|is|text ) here is example.

 $(document).ready(function() { var text = $(".para").text(); $(".result").text(text.replace(/\\t/g, "|")); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="container"> <p class="para"> Aa aa Aaa aa Bb bb Bb bb Bbb bb bb cc cccc C ccccc dd Dd d Ee e fff fff </p> <p class="result"></p> </div 

Answer 1

Use a regex with the g flag:

myString.trim().replace(/\t+/g, '|')

The + indicator groups all the \\t together. Also do a .trim() to remove the spaces at beginning/end