I have a text coming from backend with multiple breaks coming 2 breaks, 4 breaks or 6 breaks and i want to replace breaks with 2 breaks. For eg: if in a string i have four continuous breaks, then I want to replace those breaks with 2 breaks only.
I tried following code, but didn't worked:
TMSApp.filter('newlinesmatch', function () {
return function(text) {
var str = '<br>';
var count = (text.match(/<br>/g) || []).length;
if(count > 2){
return String(text).replace(/<br>/g,'<br><br>');
}
}
});
can some one help?
You can replace any number of consecutive occurrences of <br> with <br><br> like this:
TMSApp.filter('newlinesmatch', function () {
return function(text) {
return text.replace(/(<br>)+/g, '<br><br>');
}
});
NOTE: I know you mentioned that you will always be getting 2, 4, or 6 consecutive breaks. However, it is worth noting that the solution above would replace any number of consecutive occurrences (even a single one) with <br><br>.
EDIT:
Per the comment below with a REAL example, I have made the change below. Note that the original answer works for the originally described scenario, where the need was to replace CONSECUTIVE <br>s. The REAL example does not have consecutive <br>s since there is a space between every pair. The following code will work for that case:
.filter('newlinesmatch', function () {
return function(text) {
return text.replace(/(<br>\s*)+/g, '<br><br>');
}
});
And here is a working plunker with the sample data provided: