Javascript Regex Multiple Strings Replace?

[Manixat]

Heya, is there a way to find different strings in a text and replace them depending on the found string using a single replace methog ?

 

I believe my explanation is worse than bad so I guess I have to give an example:

 

if I have this sentence "Scott is Bob's best friend and Tod's worst enemy"

 

if I want to replace scott with greg, bob with jeremy and tod with simon I can do this

 

text.replace(/scott/,'Greg').replace(/bob/,'Jeremy').replace(/tod/,'Simon');

 

but my question is if I can do something like this

 

text.replace(/scott|bob|tod/,/greg|jeremy|simon/)

 

Is it possible?

 

EDIT: I know in this case I don't have to use regular expressions, but this is just an example, in my real code I have to use regex

Edited December 20, 2012 by Manixat

[codefossa]

You could create a function that will do it from an array for strings found/replaced. Then like using preg_replace with an array in PHP, you would put the regex for each of the first array, and then the replacement in the second.

[Manixat]

You could create a function that will do it from an array for strings found/replaced. Then like using preg_replace with an array in PHP, you would put the regex for each of the first array, and then the replacement in the second.

 

Yes, I know I can do that, but my page is running in background so my goal is to use as less CPU as I can that's why I wanna avoid doing loops and using 10+ replace methods

[Psycho]

Yes, I know I can do that, but my page is running in background so my goal is to use as less CPU as I can that's why I wanna avoid doing loops and using 10+ replace methods

 

Even if there was a built in function that allowed you to pass arrays, such as preg_replace allows in HP, how do you think that function would actually perform the logic? it would use loops.

[Manixat]

Ofcourse it would but it would also be written by somebody who actually knows what he's doing anyway I guess I found my answer, thank you guys!

Edited December 20, 2012 by Manixat