In most time when user want to search something in a text, he/she wants to do a case insensitive search. For example to filter items displayed in list on a page. Also on other applications, say any word processor, or in page search in Firefox, IE, Chrome etc.
So can we make the default behavior of new methods String.startsWith, String.contains, String.endsWith case insensitive? And to make it case sensitive we should add a third flag parameter matchCase like... var startsWith = str.startsWith(searchString [, position [, matchCase] ] ); var contained = str.contains(searchString [, position [, matchCase] ] ); var endsWith = str.endsWith(searchString [, position [, matchCase] ] ); Additionally we should have a String.replaceAll method right now web developers are using complex logic to achieve the same. (Again with insensitive search by default.) String.replace is not helping, as it default to case sensitive and a one time operation, if the first parameter is not a regular expression. We could also add String.replaceFirst and String.replaceLast method. If we dont want change behavior of String.startsWith, String.contains, String.endsWith to case insensitive. Can we have another set methods probably named String.startsWithI, String.containsI, String.endsWithI (where "I" stands for ignore/insensitive case) Cheers Biju http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:string_extras _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
