Regex remove repeated characters from a string by javascript

Question

I have found a way to remove repeated characters from a string using regular expressions.

function RemoveDuplicates() {
    var str = \"aaabbbccc\";
    var          


        

Answer 1

This is an old question, but in ES6 we can use Sets. The code looks like this:

var test = 'aaabbbcccaabbbcccaaaaaaaasa';
var result = Array.from(new Set(test)).join('');

console.log(result);