Regex replace all commas with value

Question

I have a string that looks like this: \"Doe, John, A\" (lastname, firstname, middle initial).

I\'m trying to write a regular expression that converts the string into \"D

Answer 1

Try this out to remove all spaces and commas, then replace with *.

Myname= myname.replace(/[,\s]/,"*")

Editted as removing 'at least two items' from the pattern. But to have at least on item.

Myname= myname.replace(/([,\s]{1,})/,"*")

Reference: on Rublar. However you are better off with regexpal as per m.buettner :)