2022-07-14
JS: Regex replacement with matching groups
When doing a .replace()
with regex, you might want to replace some group of strings, but leave some of it. Of course, you can use group matching. To do that, simply use $n
where n is a positive number from 1-100
representing the matched group number. Example:
fileName = 2022-07-15-some-title.md;
fileName.replace(/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-)(.*)(\.md$)/, '$2');
// the result of the replace will be...
// "some-title"
If we have a fileName = 2022-07-15-some-title.md
then the code above will only replace with the second ($2
) matching group. The result will be some-title