How to remove £ symbol from nested array

Ionic Native
1

Hi

I’m trying to remove the £ symbol from array but not having much luck. This is my array:

var linedata = [["£14.99,£14.99,£14.99"],["£34.99,£34.99,£34.99"]]

and this is the regex code I’m using:

const regex = /£([0-9.]+,?)/gm;
const subst = `$1`;
const result = linedata.replace(regex, subst);
console.log('substituted', result)

But its not working and I don’t know why, is it an ionic specific issue? The Ionic CLI is spitting out this error, but I don’t really know what it means, is it to do with me trying to use replace on an array?..

ERROR in src/app/home/home.page.ts(66,26): error TS2339: Property 'replace' does not exist on type 'any[]'.

Any help appreciated!

2

Just like what the error specifies, your linedata is an array of string arrays (or, array of arrays)
.replace is a method of String type values

What you should do here is to iterate through each item inside the array and do the replace to each string item

3

As already mentioned, you can’t apply replace on an array. replace happens on a string. Also, using regex for something so simple is an overkill. You could just use substring() to get string after the first character effectively removing the first character.

var linedata = [["£14.99,£14.99,£14.99"],["£34.99,£34.99,£34.99"]];

console.log('before => ',linedata);

for(var i=0;i<linedata.length;++i){
 for(var j=0;j<linedata[i].length;++j){
    linedata[i][j] = linedata[i][j].split(",").map(value => value.substring(1)).join(",");
 }  
}

console.log('after => ',linedata);
4

Thank you @jusliong that makes sense now!

5

This is brilliant thank you @vivek-23

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6

Great. If this solves your problem, can you mark it as accepted?