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Discussion on: Daily Challenge #206 - Pound Means Backspace

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Matt Ellen • Edited

JavaScript with regex:

function cleanString(str)
{
  while(str.match(/[^#]#/))
  {
    str = str.split(/[^#]#/).join('');
  }
  str = str.replace(/^#+/, '');
  return str;
}
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Amin

Try with

console.log(cleanString("########c"));
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Matt Ellen

Thanks. Fixt.