Replace all without a regex where can I use the G

Question

So I have the following:

var token = '[token]';
var tokenValue = 'elephant';
var string = 'i have a beautiful [token] and i sold my [token]';
string = string.replace(token, tokenValue);

The above will only replace the first [token] and leave the second on alone.

If I were to use regex I could use it like

string = string.replace(/[token]/g, tokenValue);

And this would replace all my [tokens]

However I don't know how to do this without the use of //

Answer 1

I have found split/join satisfactory enough for most of my cases. A real-life example:

myText.split("\n").join('<br>');

Answer 2

Why not replace the token every time it appears with a do while loop?

var index = 0;
do {
    string = string.replace(token, tokenValue);
} while((index = string.indexOf(token, index + 1)) > -1);