Sometimes, we want to remove characters from a string with JavaScript.

In this article, we’ll look at how to remove characters from a string with JavaScript.

How to remove characters from a string with JavaScript?

To remove characters from a string with JavaScript, we use the string replace method.

For instance, we write

const str = "foo bar baz";
const newStr = str.replace(/ba/gi, "");

to call str.replace with a regex that matches the pattern we want to remove.

And we replace all matches with empty strings.

The g flag makes replace replace all matches.

i matches it find matches in a case-insensitive manner.

Conclusion

To remove characters from a string with JavaScript, we use the string replace method.