We are required to write a function removeStr() that lives on String.prototype object and takes in a string str, a character char and a number n.
The function should remove the nth appearance of char from str.
Let’s write the code for this −
const str = 'aaaaaa';
const subStr = 'a';
const num = 6;
removeStr = function(subStr, num){
if(!this.includes(subStr)){
return -1;
}
let start = 0, end = subStr.length;
let occurences = 0;
for(; ;end < this.length){
if(this.substring(start, end) === subStr){
occurences++;
};
if(occurences === num){
return this.substring(0, start) + this.substring(end, this.length);
};
end++;
start++;
}
return -1;
}
String.prototype.removeStr = removeStr;
console.log(str.removeStr(subStr, num));Output for this code in the console will be −
aaaaa