How to split a string on substrings with set of characters in Javascript?

Question

Is there a quite simple way to split a string on substrings with set of characters like without using Regexp ?

abcd..,,qqww..::ss       - input
.,:    - characters
abcd qqww ss   - substrings

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Answer 1

You can use .replace() to pass in the values you don't want present in the output.

var str = 'abcd..,,qqww..::ss ';
var newStr = str.replace(/[.,:]/g,''); // if you want to replace them with spaces, change '' to ' '
alert(newStr) // results in abcdqqwwss

https://jsfiddle.net/kdqtpcq9/