How to replace all dots in a string using JavaScript

Question

I want to replace all the occurrences of a dot(.) in a JavaScript string

For example, I have:

var mystring = 'okay.this.is.a.string'; 

I want to get: okay this is a string.

So far I tried:

mystring.replace(/./g,' ') 

but this ends up with all the string replaced to spaces.

Answer 1

You need to escape the . because it has the meaning of "an arbitrary character" in a regular expression.

mystring = mystring.replace(/\./g,' ') 

Answer 2

One more solution which is easy to understand :)

var newstring = mystring.split('.').join(' ');