Replace All Character Instances in String

Benchmark created by Nathan on June 22, 2014

Preparation HTML

<script>
var string = 'btn-success',
    rgxAllDots = /\./g;

(function() {
"use strict";

String.prototype.replaceAllChar = function(character, replacement) {
    var indices = [],
        i = 0,
        str = '';
    for (; i < this.length; i++) {
        if (this[i] === character) {
            indices.push(i);
        }
    }
    for (i = 0; i < indices.length;) {
        str += replacement + this.slice(indices[i] + 1, indices[++i]);
    }
    return str || this;
};

})();
</script>

Test runner

string.replace(rgxAllDots, ' ');

string.replaceAllChar('.', ' ');

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by Nathan on June 22, 2014