How to eliminate specific repeated characters in a string?

Question

I have a simple string with some repeating characters. Can someone please help me fix the expression below to remove not only duplicate characters but all characters that occur more than 1 time.

console.log('aaabbxxstring'.replace(/(.)(?=.*?)/g,'')); // string

I am using lookahead to capture matching characters and replace the match with spaces. The question is how to replace the capturing group itself. Or is the entire approach incorrect?

P粉416996828 · Answer

console.log('aaabbxxstring'.replace(/(.)+/g, '')); // string

illustrate:

(.) captures a single character.
+ matches one or more occurrences of the captured character.
/g performs a global search to replace all occurrences.

P粉757432491 · Answer

When you split a string around characters, use the length of the resulting array to count occurrences.

str.split(c).length

Provides you with the number of occurrences plus 1.

Convert the string to an array, filter by the number of occurrences, and connect to the string.

var str = 'aaabxbxxstring';

const count = (str, c) => str.split(c).length - 1

str = [...str].filter(c => count(str,c) < 2).join('')

console.log(str);