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Remove Braces from String Using JavaScript

June 21, 2022 Leave a Comment

We can remove braces from a string in JavaScript easily by using the JavaScript String replace() method.

var someString = "{This is }a {string with braces}"

someString = someString.replace(/\{/g, '');
someString = someString.replace(/\}/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with braces

Since braces are special characters we must escape them by putting a backslash in front of them, as seen in the code above.

Notice in the replace method above, that instead of using .replace('\{', '') we use replace(/\{/g, ''). If we used the expression '\{' in the replace function, it only replace the FIRST instance of a brace. Using the regular expression /\{/g makes it so we replace ALL instances of braces in the string.

If we wanted to remove the braces with just one code of line, we could use the following regex expression.

var someString = "{This is }a {string with braces}"

someString = someString.replace(/\{|\}/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with braces

When using string variables in JavaScript, we can easily perform string manipulation to change the value of the string variables.

One such manipulation is to remove characters from a string variable. Braces can be troubling characters to deal with in string variables.

We can easily remove braces from a string in JavaScript.

The easiest way to get rid of braces in a string using JavaScript is with the JavaScript String replace() function.

The replace() function takes two arguments: the substring we want to replace, and the replacement substring. In this case, to remove braces, we pass the brace (“\{“) character as the first argument and an empty string as the second argument.

Below are some examples of how you can remove braces from strings in JavaScript using the replace() function.

var someString = "{This is }a {string with braces}"

someString = someString.replace(/{/g, '');
someString = someString.replace(/}/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with braces

Hopefully this article has been useful for you to learn how to remove braces from a string in JavaScript.

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