how do i replace chunks of a character with a single character-CodePudding

So I have a string something like this

thing thing2 thing3 thing4

How do I replace the chunks of spaces with a single character, so the output would be

thing|thing2|thing3|thing4

The chunks are random length

CodePudding user response：

You can use the regular expression \s to match one or more consecutive whitespace characters and replace them with pipes.

const str = 'thing       thing2    thing3         thing4';
const res = str.replace(/\s /g, '|');
console.log(res);

CodePudding user response：

You use the string replace() method:

var s = 'thing       thing2    thing3         thing4'
s = s.replace(/  /g, '|');
console.info(s);