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When replacing all occurrences of aba in ababa with ca, which result do you expect? caba? abca? cca?
String.prototype.replaceAll() is now a standard part of ECMAScript tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-string.prototype.replaceall, documented at developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… and shipped in Safari 13.1, Firefox 77 and Chrome Dev/Canary and will ship in Chrome 85. From the docs: "If searchValue is a string, replaces all occurrences of searchValue (as if .split(searchValue).join(replaceValue) or a global & properly-escaped regular expression had been used). If searchValue is a non-global regular expression, throws an exception"
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abainababawithca, which result do you expect?caba?abca?cca?String.prototype.replaceAll()is now a standard part of ECMAScript tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-string.prototype.replaceall, documented at developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… and shipped in Safari 13.1, Firefox 77 and Chrome Dev/Canary and will ship in Chrome 85. From the docs: "If searchValue is a string, replaces all occurrences of searchValue (as if.split(searchValue).join(replaceValue)or a global & properly-escaped regular expression had been used). If searchValue is a non-global regular expression, throws an exception"