> /^(.*?)needle.*$/.exec("foobar_needle")[1]
'foobar_'
On Jan 2, 2012, at 19:04 , Adam Shannon wrote:
> Alex, I'm confused as to what regular expressions would help with in
> this case. (Over .indexOf) The idea of .util() would be to return a
> new string which is just a substring, but provided as an "ease of use"
> to the developer.
>
> The case where I wrote .util() was in parsing out two comma separated
> values. I only needed the first, as could also be seen with trying to
> pull the first name (assuming just a first and last name), you could
> easily call name.until(' ') and get that back.
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:55, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
>> Isn’t that usually better handled via a regular expression?
>>
>> One of the use cases for quasis [1][2] is to make it easy to insert literal
>> text into a regular expression. That seems pertinent here. Example:
>>
>> re`\d+(${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));
>>> }
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
>> a...@rauschma.de
>>
>> home: rauschma.de
>> twitter: twitter.com/rauschma
>> blog: 2ality.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Adam Shannon
> Web Developer
> University of Northern Iowa
> Sophomore -- Computer Science B.S. & Mathematics
> http://ashannon.us
>
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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