Question

How can I remove spaces, a keyword, and everything after it? Here’s what I’m looking for

var test = $('.replaceMe').attr('title').replace(/ /g, '');

<a class="replaceMe" href="#" title="Replace By Everything After It">haha</a>

resulting in:

test = Replace;

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UPDATE:

The keyword is a yet-to-be-determined word that will be included in all titles. In this example, it is “By”.

Both Roko and user1215106’s answers work- in that they remove all the excess from the example, leaving Replace, but I failed to clarify that the phrase before the keyword (in this case, Replace) will vary and will have differing amounts of words.

For example:

title="Replace By Everything After It"

Result= Replace

title="All This Should Stay By Things That Should Go"

Result= AllThisShouldStay

Answer 1

jsFiddle demo

var keyword = 'By';

var test = $('.replaceMe').attr('title').split(keyword)[0].replace(/ /g, '') ; 

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Or instead of having the keyword variable you can do:

var test = $('.replaceMe').attr('title').split('By')[0].replace(/ /g, '') ;