Question

I want to search an address string.

if ” Southeast ” is found, replace it with ” SE “;

if ” Southwest ” is found, replace it with ” SW “;

if ” northeast ” is found, replace it with ” NE “;

if ” northeast ” is found, replace it with ” NW “.

Here is what I did so far:

 var searchStr = [" Southeast ", " Southwest ", " Northeast ", " Northwest "];
 var replaceStr = [" SE ", " SW ", " NE ", " NW "];
 var oldAddress = $("#address").text();

 for (i=0;i<searchStr.length;i++){
     var n = oldAddress.match(/this[i]/g);
         if(n != null){
            $("#address").text(replaceStr[i]);  
         }                        
 }

It didn’t do anything, am I missing something?

Answer 1

var newAddress = oldAddress
                    .replace("Southeast", "SE")
                    .replace("Southwest", "SW")
                    .replace("Northeast", "NE")
                    .replace("Northwest", "NW");
$("#address").text(newAddress);