Can you tell me the meaning of "/g" here [duplicate] - javascript

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How to match multiple occurrences of a substring
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Closed 7 years ago.
When I've studied the code given by my professor, I found a line that I do not quite understand.
The code is like this:
textclean = textclean.replace(/ your /g," ");
I think the meaning is to replace your with a space so we can delete it by split(" "); but what is the meaning of /g?
Why can't we use:
textclean = textclean.replace(your, " ");

It means replace globally, not only the 1st occurance. If you have "Foo your bar mooo your example" then without the /g only the 1st " your " would be replaced.

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I have a variable that contains a string with lots of line breaks.
myvariable = '
1234556788,3434343434\n
1244556788,7234343834\n
1234556788,4434343434\n
1234556784,8434343434\n
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I need some way of removing just the first one without leaving a blank first line if possible.
So that this:
1234556788,3434343434\n
1244556788,7234343834\n
1234556788,4434343434\n
1234556784,8434343434\n
1234556782,9444343434\n
turns into this:
1244556788,7234343834\n
1234556788,4434343434\n
1234556784,8434343434\n
1234556782,9444343434\n
So it would remove the first line after the \n
How can I do this?
myvariable = `1234556788,3434343434\n
1244556788,7234343834\n
1234556788,4434343434\n
1234556784,8434343434\n
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Extract text from enclosing parentheses using JavaScript [duplicate]

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I have a string like Manila (Philippines) and want to replace it with only the substring Philippines. I tried using the following regex pattern, which works in Notepad++:
[^\(]+ \(([^\)]+)\)
However, I get an undefined result in JavaScript:
var x = "Manila (Philippines)";
console.log(x.replace(/[^\(]+ \(([^\)]+)\)/,$1));
You just forgot the " around your replace pattern!
console.log(x.replace(/[^\(]+ \(([^\)]+)\)/,"$1")); will work correctly!
You can use .match():
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I'm trying to replace every word between %% with a single word. Till now I tried this:
var string = "You chose %story% at %price%";
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while I want
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JavaScript replace() not working, get same result [duplicate]

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I'm trying to get only AN from this string, but replace function seems not working, I end up getting exactly the same string every time... any hits?
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Now I have this regex:
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It is almost that I want. I want to convert this: THIS IS MINE, NOT YOURS. to this: This is mine, not yours.
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