How to replace all BUT the first occurrence of a pattern in string

Question

quick question: my pattern is an svg string and it looks like l 5 0 l 0 10 l -5 0 l 0 -10 To do some unittest comparison against a reference I need to ditch all

Answer 1

You can try a negative lookahead, avoiding the start of the string:

/(?!^)l/g

See if online: jsfiddle