How to remove everyting after second occurrence of a specific character?

Question

I have a string like below

var str = "Lorem Ipsum is simply& dummy text of the &printing and & typesetting industry."

How can I remove the second character & and everything after it in jQuery?

There are a few different ways. What direction are you going in, and what have you tried? — zfrisch, Feb 16 '19 at 08:46
This Stackoverflow question may help you : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14480345/how-to-get-the-nth-occurrence-in-a-string — Shai Aharoni, Feb 16 '19 at 08:49
You want something like `str.split("&", 2).join("&")`? NB: this has nothing to do with jQuery. — trincot, Feb 16 '19 at 08:53

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '19 at 09:03

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You can combine split and join:

str.split("&", 2).join("&")

The argument 2 will make that split only returns the first two substrings that are split off, the rest is ignored. join would put those 2 pieces back together with the restored &.

answered Feb 16 '19 at 09:03

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How to remove everyting after second occurrence of a specific character?

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