Question

I want to generate a new string from an existing string.javascript In the new generated string all characters would be presented by ‘*’ except ‘ ‘ (space).
For example if existing string is

“hide me”

then new genrated string would be

"**** **"

I tried like this, but it is not working.

 function hiddenData()
{
var size = word.length;
for (var i = 0; i <= size; i++)
{
    if (word[i] == ' ') {
        hiddenStr[i] = ' ';
    }
    else
    {
        hiddenStr[i] = '_';
    }
}
hiddenStr[i] = '\0';
}

Sorry for my poor explanation,

Answer 1

use replace() and regular expression.

var str=word.replace(/[^ ]/g, '*');