Alex, I'm confused as to what regular expressions would help with in
this case. (Over .indexOf) The idea of .util() would be to return a
new string which is just a substring, but provided as an "ease of use"
to the developer.
The case where I wrote .util() was in parsing out two comma separated
values. I only needed the first, as could also be seen with trying to
pull the first name (assuming just a first and last name), you could
easily call name.until(' ') and get that back.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:55, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
> Isn’t that usually better handled via a regular expression?
>
> One of the use cases for quasis [1][2] is to make it easy to insert literal
> text into a regular expression. That seems pertinent here. Example:
>
> re`\d+(${localeSpecificDecimalPoint}\d+)?`
>
> The text in the variable localeSpecificDecimalPoint is matched literally by
> the regular expression produced by re``.
>
> [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:quasis
> [2] http://www.2ality.com/2011/09/quasi-literals.html
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2012, at 18:03 , Adam Shannon wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently ran into a situation where I would like to obtain a
>> substring from the beginning until the first encounter with another
>> substring. This promoted me to write a simple function, called until
>> and I wondered if it would be something to add with the other string
>> extras for ES.next.
>>
>> It could be defined as acting the same way as the following code:
>>
>> String.prototype.until = function (needle) {
>> return this.substr(0, this.indexOf(needle));
>> }
>
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