cutting out between two words

[angelblade27]

i want to cut stuff out between two words in a string.
like suppose the string is "hello how are u" i want to pass how and u and have the string be returned as "hello how u". is there a function to do this?

 

[cLFlaVA]

well, will it also parse out "are"? you could do this:

var myStr = "hello how are u";
var newStr = myStr.split("are").join(" ");

alert(newStr);

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[kaht]

make sure you add the spaces in the replace function in cory's example above, otherwise you'll have 3 spaces between the words "how" and "u" (is "u" a word?)

var myStr = "hello how are u";
var newStr = myStr.split("[COLOR=black red] [/color]are[COLOR=black red] [/color]").join(" ");

alert(newStr);

-kaht

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[angelblade27]

well it kind of works but i want it to take out everything inbetween. like if it is "hello how are is it u"
everything between how and u should be gone

 

[cLFlaVA]

if you want to get technical (and apparently kaht does), you may want to consider a regex, which will strip any number of spaces, not just the hard-coded single-space:

[COLOR=white red]
var myStr = "hello how                     are        u";
var newStr = myStr.split(/\W+are\W+/g).join(" ");

alert(newStr);[/color]

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[tsuji]

[tt]var s="hello how are is it u";
var t=s.replace(/(\bhow\b)(.*?)(\bu\b)/,"$1\x20$3");
[/tt]