JS: Slice and remove

Is there any function in js which removes the characters you sliced from the given string? For example:

var initVal = 'removeMEremoveME';
var tempVal = initVal.slice(initVal.lastIndexOf(['removeME']));

After running this, these are the things that i’m looking for:

initVal = 'removeME';
tempVal = 'removeME';

This is what i get instead:

initVal = 'removeMEremoveME';
tempVal = 'removeME';

The original initVal stays the same since you never actually change it. Why not just do:

var initVal = 'removeMEremoveME';
var tempVal = initVal.slice(initVal.lastIndexOf(['removeME']));
initVal=tempVal;

Because in reality:

initVal = 'removeMEremoveMEremoveMEremoveMEremoveME';

And when i do your equality, my initVal is stripped down of all of the “removeME”s .. I need to remove them one by one..

I see, i didnt get that from the original post.

Well, you could do something like this: jsfiddle

Its not exactly elegant, but i think its ok to build upon.

var initVal = 'removeMEremoveMEremoveMEremoveMEremoveME',
removeMes = initVal.split('removeME').join('|removeME').split('|'),
tempVal;

removeMes.shift();

while(removeMes.length) {

    removeMes.shift();

    tempVal = removeMes.toString().split(',').join('');

    console.log(tempVal);

}

Traces:

removeMEremoveMEremoveMEremoveME
removeMEremoveMEremoveME
removeMEremoveME
removeME