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Remove first occurrence of comma in a string

rated 0 times [ 26] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 36010 / 10 Years ago, sat, may 31, 2014, 12:00:00

I am looking for a way to remove the first occurrence of a comma in a string, for example

some text1, some tex2, some text3

should return instead:

some text1 some text2, some tex3

So, the function should only look if there's more than one comma, and if there is, it should remove the first occurrence. This could be probably solved with the regex but I don't know how to write it, any ideas ?

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answered 10 Years ago braeden · Accepted Answer

This will do it:

if (str.match(/,.*,/)) { // Check if there are 2 commas

    str = str.replace(',', ''); // Remove the first one

}

When you use the replace method with a string rather than an RE, it just replaces the first match.