helloo... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters..

say i have string like so..

let str = `28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...`

i need to remove 28 Mar 2017 ... thus being helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...

i did

str.split(" ... ").pop()

it just remove everything when " ... " occur, instead of first occurrence... it only apply when there have only 1 " ... "

regex is also wele..

thank Youu..

helloo... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters..

say i have string like so..

let str = `28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...`

i need to remove 28 Mar 2017 ... thus being helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...

i did

str.split(" ... ").pop()

it just remove everything when " ... " occur, instead of first occurrence... it only apply when there have only 1 " ... "

regex is also wele..

thank Youu..

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• Does this answer your question? Remove part of the string before the FIRST dot with js – Heretic Monkey Commented Aug 4, 2021 at 15:20

4 Answers 4

This works by using the ? of regex.

Full regex break down:

• ^ the start of the string
• .+ match any character unlimited times
• ? Matches the preceding expression 0 or 1 times
• (\.\.\.) ... where the . is escaped by \
• the last space of your regex

then use String.prototype.replace to replace the set described by regex with an empty string.

See the regex here.

let str = `28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...`

console.log(str.replace(/^.+?(\.\.\.) /, ''))

The naive solution:

    var str = "28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until 
             first occurrence of special charaters ...";
    var res = str.substring(str.indexOf('...')+3, str.length);

Regards.

If you want to use split you should use shift() which will remove the first item in an array. pop() is removing the last one

let str = `28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...`;

let split = str.split(' ... '); //Split by characters needed
split.shift(); //Shift first index => everything before characters

console.log(split.join(" "));

Use the replace function and pass the regex [^.]+[\.]+\s* to replace everything before the first letter after the ... and the optional space

Look, we didn't used the g flag here to match only first occurance.

Then, replace it with ''

var str = '28 Mar 2017 ... helloo ... i need to remove everything until first occurrence of special charaters ...';
console.log(str.replace(/[^.]+[\.]+\s*/,''));