find and replace '%20' with a space in a string javascript

Question

I'm having some trouble trying to figure this out,

basically I have a url string like so this%20is%20a%20string now what I want to do is find and replace all instances of %20 and replace with a space so the string then becomes this is a string.

Now I've tried to do something like this..

if(string.includes('%20')) {
   const arr = str.split('%20');
}

which splits the string into an array, but I'm not sure how I can then turn the array of seperate strings into a full string with spaces between each word.

Any help would be appreciated.

`decodeURI("this%20is%20a%20string")` – Raphael Rafatpanah Jan 09 '19 at 00:00 — Raphael Rafatpanah, Jan 09 '19 at 00:00

Moumen Soliman · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-09T00:06:35.187

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Using regex,

str.replace(/%20/g, ' ');

edited Jan 09 '19 at 00:06

answered Jan 08 '19 at 23:58

Moumen Soliman

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Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for! I will accept this answer is 10 minutes – Smokey Dawson Jan 08 '19 at 23:59

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '19 at 23:58

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Just use join:

str.split('%20').join(" ")

answered Jan 08 '19 at 23:58

Krzysztof Atłasik

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 09 '19 at 00:06

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let val = "this%20is%20a%20string".replace(/%20/g, ' ');
alert(val);

replace

answered Jan 09 '19 at 00:06

Cabrera

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