Example: '1234567' String has : 7 consecutive digits and these are 1234567
Example : '123456' String has : 6 consecutive digits and these are 123456
I need both the
count
the digits sequence as output also
Please help, regex or custom function
I had used inefficient brute force approach:
var m10 = /^\d{10}$/.exec(str);
var m9 = /^\d{9}$/.exec(str);
var m8 = /^\d{8}$/.exec(str);
Using this I need to have m1,m2 to m10 and then use if else to check if the string has 1 or 10 consecutive digits and then output it
Time is important here so trying to find optimize way of doing this.
You can get the matches using match and regex \d+
var matches = "1234567String".match(/\d+/g);
Now get the max value using reduce
if( matches )
{
var maxLengthStr = matches.reduce( ( a, c ) => ( c.length > a.length ? c : a ) , "" );
}
You can get the length of string as
var fnGetMax = str => {
var matches = "1234567String".match(/\d+/g);
var maxLengthStr = matches ? matches.reduce( ( a, c ) => (c.length > a.length ? c : a ) , "" ) : "";
return { value : maxLengthStr , length : maxLengthStr.length }; //return the expression
}
Demo
var fnGetMax = str => {
var matches = "1234567String".match(/\d+/g);
var maxLengthStr = matches ? matches.reduce((a, c) => (c.length > a.length ? c : a), "") : "";
return {
value: maxLengthStr, length: maxLengthStr.length
}; //return the expression
}
console.log( fnGetMax( "34234ksdf34234ssdcs432sadfe34343" ) );
if performance is what you are looking for, i think you really should consider using a loop, see this example:
NOTE: in case of two substring with identical lengths, with this method the first one will be returned (for the last one, use if(s.length >= saved.length)). If no substring is found, empty string is currently returned.
var result;
var fnGetMax = str => {
var matches = str.match(/\d+/g);
var maxLengthStr = matches ? matches.reduce((a, c) => (c.length > a.length ? c : a), "") : "";
return {
value: maxLengthStr, length: maxLengthStr.length
}; //return the expression
}
var s = performance.now();
console.log( result = fnGetMax( "34234ksdf34234ssdcs432sadfe34343" ) );
var e = performance.now();
console.log('time: ', e - s);
document.getElementById('result1').innerHTML = 'REDUCE - string: ' + result.value + ' / length: ' + result.length + ' / timing: ' + (e - s);
var fnGetMax2 = str => {
var saved = '', s = '', i, l = str.length;
for(i = 0; i < l; i++){
if('0123456789'.indexOf(str[i]) !== -1){
s += str[i];
if(s.length > saved.length){
saved = s;
}
}else{
s = '';
}
}
return {
value: saved, length: saved.length
}
}
var s = performance.now();
console.log( result = fnGetMax2( "34234ksdf34234ssdcs432sadfe34343" ) );
var e = performance.now();
console.log('time: ', e - s);
document.getElementById('result2').innerHTML = 'LOOP - string: ' + result.value + ' / length: ' + result.length + ' / timing: ' + (e - s);
<div id="result1"></div>
<div id="result2"></div>
For example if we say:
parseInt("128"); // => 128
Works flawlessly.
If we say:
parseInt("a128"); // => NaN
But if we say:
parseInt("123a"); // => 128 again :(
Is there an explicit way to parse the number only and if any alphabet character appears in the argument, it would return NaN?
for your scenario where you need to deal with string you can use Number function as well.Number() function converts the object argument to a number that represents the object's value
//test cases
console.log( Number("123") );
console.log( Number("123a") );
console.log( Number("a123") );
parseInt doesn't work this way, check the specs.
It removes leading and trailing spaces.
If a character is encountered which isn't interpreted as integer and isn't supported by radix, then it is ignored
However you can force it work this way by doing
(function(){
var old = parseInt;
parseInt = function(x, y){
if ( ( !y || y == 10 ) && isNaN( Number(x) ) ) { return NaN }
return old.apply(this, arguments)
}
})();
//test cases
console.log( parseInt("123") );
console.log( parseInt("123a") );
console.log( parseInt("123a", 16) );
console.log( parseInt("a123") );
You can do the function yourself as well:
function in_array (array, key){
var check = false;
for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
if(key == array[i]){
check = true;
break;
}
}
return check;
}
var allowedchars=["0","1","3","4","5","6","7","8","9"];
function checkIsStringNaN (str){
var b = true;
for(var i = 0, i < str.length; i++){
if(!in_array(allowedchars, str.charAt(i))){
b = false;
break;
}
}
if(!b) {
return NaN;
} else {
return parseInt(str);
}
}
Is that what you expect to have?
function checkIsStringNaN (str) {
return isNaN(str) ? NaN : parseInt(str)
}
checkIsStringNaN("128") // 128
checkIsStringNaN("a128") // NaN
checkIsStringNaN("123a") // NaN
Where could I find some JavaScript code to parse CSV data?
You can use the CSVToArray() function mentioned in this blog entry.
<script type="text/javascript">
// ref: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1293163/2343
// This will parse a delimited string into an array of
// arrays. The default delimiter is the comma, but this
// can be overriden in the second argument.
function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter ){
// Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
// then default to comma.
strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
// Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
var objPattern = new RegExp(
(
// Delimiters.
"(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
// Quoted fields.
"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
// Standard fields.
"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
),
"gi"
);
// Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
// a default empty first row.
var arrData = [[]];
// Create an array to hold our individual pattern
// matching groups.
var arrMatches = null;
// Keep looping over the regular expression matches
// until we can no longer find a match.
while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){
// Get the delimiter that was found.
var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ];
// Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
// (is not the start of string) and if it matches
// field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
// that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
if (
strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
strMatchedDelimiter !== strDelimiter
){
// Since we have reached a new row of data,
// add an empty row to our data array.
arrData.push( [] );
}
var strMatchedValue;
// Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
// let's check to see which kind of value we
// captured (quoted or unquoted).
if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){
// We found a quoted value. When we capture
// this value, unescape any double quotes.
strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
"\""
);
} else {
// We found a non-quoted value.
strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ];
}
// Now that we have our value string, let's add
// it to the data array.
arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue );
}
// Return the parsed data.
return( arrData );
}
</script>
jQuery-CSV
It's a jQuery plugin designed to work as an end-to-end solution for parsing CSV into JavaScript data. It handles every single edge case presented in RFC 4180, as well as some that pop up for Excel/Google spreadsheet exports (i.e., mostly involving null values) that the specification is missing.
Example:
track,artist,album,year
Dangerous,'Busta Rhymes','When Disaster Strikes',1997
// Calling this
music = $.csv.toArrays(csv)
// Outputs...
[
["track", "artist", "album", "year"],
["Dangerous", "Busta Rhymes", "When Disaster Strikes", "1997"]
]
console.log(music[1][2]) // Outputs: 'When Disaster Strikes'
Update:
Oh yeah, I should also probably mention that it's completely configurable.
music = $.csv.toArrays(csv, {
delimiter: "'", // Sets a custom value delimiter character
separator: ';', // Sets a custom field separator character
});
Update 2:
It now works with jQuery on Node.js too. So you have the option of doing either client-side or server-side parsing with the same library.
Update 3:
Since the Google Code shutdown, jquery-csv has been migrated to GitHub.
Disclaimer: I am also the author of jQuery-CSV.
Here's an extremely simple CSV parser that handles quoted fields with commas, new lines, and escaped double quotation marks. There's no splitting or regular expression. It scans the input string 1-2 characters at a time and builds an array.
Test it at http://jsfiddle.net/vHKYH/.
function parseCSV(str) {
var arr = [];
var quote = false; // 'true' means we're inside a quoted field
// Iterate over each character, keep track of current row and column (of the returned array)
for (var row = 0, col = 0, c = 0; c < str.length; c++) {
var cc = str[c], nc = str[c+1]; // Current character, next character
arr[row] = arr[row] || []; // Create a new row if necessary
arr[row][col] = arr[row][col] || ''; // Create a new column (start with empty string) if necessary
// If the current character is a quotation mark, and we're inside a
// quoted field, and the next character is also a quotation mark,
// add a quotation mark to the current column and skip the next character
if (cc == '"' && quote && nc == '"') { arr[row][col] += cc; ++c; continue; }
// If it's just one quotation mark, begin/end quoted field
if (cc == '"') { quote = !quote; continue; }
// If it's a comma and we're not in a quoted field, move on to the next column
if (cc == ',' && !quote) { ++col; continue; }
// If it's a newline (CRLF) and we're not in a quoted field, skip the next character
// and move on to the next row and move to column 0 of that new row
if (cc == '\r' && nc == '\n' && !quote) { ++row; col = 0; ++c; continue; }
// If it's a newline (LF or CR) and we're not in a quoted field,
// move on to the next row and move to column 0 of that new row
if (cc == '\n' && !quote) { ++row; col = 0; continue; }
if (cc == '\r' && !quote) { ++row; col = 0; continue; }
// Otherwise, append the current character to the current column
arr[row][col] += cc;
}
return arr;
}
I have an implementation as part of a spreadsheet project.
This code is not yet tested thoroughly, but anyone is welcome to use it.
As some of the answers noted though, your implementation can be much simpler if you actually have DSV or TSV file, as they disallow the use of the record and field separators in the values. CSV, on the other hand, can actually have commas and newlines inside a field, which breaks most regular expression and split-based approaches.
var CSV = {
parse: function(csv, reviver) {
reviver = reviver || function(r, c, v) { return v; };
var chars = csv.split(''), c = 0, cc = chars.length, start, end, table = [], row;
while (c < cc) {
table.push(row = []);
while (c < cc && '\r' !== chars[c] && '\n' !== chars[c]) {
start = end = c;
if ('"' === chars[c]){
start = end = ++c;
while (c < cc) {
if ('"' === chars[c]) {
if ('"' !== chars[c+1]) {
break;
}
else {
chars[++c] = ''; // unescape ""
}
}
end = ++c;
}
if ('"' === chars[c]) {
++c;
}
while (c < cc && '\r' !== chars[c] && '\n' !== chars[c] && ',' !== chars[c]) {
++c;
}
} else {
while (c < cc && '\r' !== chars[c] && '\n' !== chars[c] && ',' !== chars[c]) {
end = ++c;
}
}
row.push(reviver(table.length-1, row.length, chars.slice(start, end).join('')));
if (',' === chars[c]) {
++c;
}
}
if ('\r' === chars[c]) {
++c;
}
if ('\n' === chars[c]) {
++c;
}
}
return table;
},
stringify: function(table, replacer) {
replacer = replacer || function(r, c, v) { return v; };
var csv = '', c, cc, r, rr = table.length, cell;
for (r = 0; r < rr; ++r) {
if (r) {
csv += '\r\n';
}
for (c = 0, cc = table[r].length; c < cc; ++c) {
if (c) {
csv += ',';
}
cell = replacer(r, c, table[r][c]);
if (/[,\r\n"]/.test(cell)) {
cell = '"' + cell.replace(/"/g, '""') + '"';
}
csv += (cell || 0 === cell) ? cell : '';
}
}
return csv;
}
};
csvToArray v1.3
A compact (645 bytes), but compliant function to convert a CSV string into a 2D array, conforming to the RFC4180 standard.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/csv-to-array/downloads
Common Usage: jQuery
$.ajax({
url: "test.csv",
dataType: 'text',
cache: false
}).done(function(csvAsString){
csvAsArray=csvAsString.csvToArray();
});
Common usage: JavaScript
csvAsArray = csvAsString.csvToArray();
Override field separator
csvAsArray = csvAsString.csvToArray("|");
Override record separator
csvAsArray = csvAsString.csvToArray("", "#");
Override Skip Header
csvAsArray = csvAsString.csvToArray("", "", 1);
Override all
csvAsArray = csvAsString.csvToArray("|", "#", 1);
Here's my PEG(.js) grammar that seems to do ok at RFC 4180 (i.e. it handles the examples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values):
start
= [\n\r]* first:line rest:([\n\r]+ data:line { return data; })* [\n\r]* { rest.unshift(first); return rest; }
line
= first:field rest:("," text:field { return text; })*
& { return !!first || rest.length; } // ignore blank lines
{ rest.unshift(first); return rest; }
field
= '"' text:char* '"' { return text.join(''); }
/ text:[^\n\r,]* { return text.join(''); }
char
= '"' '"' { return '"'; }
/ [^"]
Try it out at http://jsfiddle.net/knvzk/10 or http://pegjs.majda.cz/online. Download the generated parser at https://gist.github.com/3362830.
Here's another solution. This uses:
a coarse global regular expression for splitting the CSV string (which includes surrounding quotes and trailing commas)
fine-grained regular expression for cleaning up the surrounding quotes and trailing commas
also, has type correction differentiating strings, numbers, boolean values and null values
For the following input string:
"This is\, a value",Hello,4,-123,3.1415,'This is also\, possible',true,
The code outputs:
[
"This is, a value",
"Hello",
4,
-123,
3.1415,
"This is also, possible",
true,
null
]
Here's my implementation of parseCSVLine() in a runnable code snippet:
function parseCSVLine(text) {
return text.match( /\s*(\"[^"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^,]*)\s*(,|$)/g ).map( function (text) {
let m;
if (m = text.match(/^\s*,?$/)) return null; // null value
if (m = text.match(/^\s*\"([^"]*)\"\s*,?$/)) return m[1]; // Double Quoted Text
if (m = text.match(/^\s*'([^']*)'\s*,?$/)) return m[1]; // Single Quoted Text
if (m = text.match(/^\s*(true|false)\s*,?$/)) return m[1] === "true"; // Boolean
if (m = text.match(/^\s*((?:\+|\-)?\d+)\s*,?$/)) return parseInt(m[1]); // Integer Number
if (m = text.match(/^\s*((?:\+|\-)?\d*\.\d*)\s*,?$/)) return parseFloat(m[1]); // Floating Number
if (m = text.match(/^\s*(.*?)\s*,?$/)) return m[1]; // Unquoted Text
return text;
} );
}
let data = `"This is\, a value",Hello,4,-123,3.1415,'This is also\, possible',true,`;
let obj = parseCSVLine(data);
console.log( JSON.stringify( obj, undefined, 2 ) );
Here's my simple vanilla JavaScript code:
let a = 'one,two,"three, but with a comma",four,"five, with ""quotes"" in it.."'
console.log(splitQuotes(a))
function splitQuotes(line) {
if(line.indexOf('"') < 0)
return line.split(',')
let result = [], cell = '', quote = false;
for(let i = 0; i < line.length; i++) {
char = line[i]
if(char == '"' && line[i+1] == '"') {
cell += char
i++
} else if(char == '"') {
quote = !quote;
} else if(!quote && char == ',') {
result.push(cell)
cell = ''
} else {
cell += char
}
if ( i == line.length-1 && cell) {
result.push(cell)
}
}
return result
}
I'm not sure why I couldn't get Kirtan's example to work for me. It seemed to be failing on empty fields or maybe fields with trailing commas...
This one seems to handle both.
I did not write the parser code, just a wrapper around the parser function to make this work for a file. See attribution.
var Strings = {
/**
* Wrapped CSV line parser
* #param s String delimited CSV string
* #param sep Separator override
* #attribution: http://www.greywyvern.com/?post=258 (comments closed on blog :( )
*/
parseCSV : function(s,sep) {
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1155678/javascript-string-newline-character
var universalNewline = /\r\n|\r|\n/g;
var a = s.split(universalNewline);
for(var i in a){
for (var f = a[i].split(sep = sep || ","), x = f.length - 1, tl; x >= 0; x--) {
if (f[x].replace(/"\s+$/, '"').charAt(f[x].length - 1) == '"') {
if ((tl = f[x].replace(/^\s+"/, '"')).length > 1 && tl.charAt(0) == '"') {
f[x] = f[x].replace(/^\s*"|"\s*$/g, '').replace(/""/g, '"');
} else if (x) {
f.splice(x - 1, 2, [f[x - 1], f[x]].join(sep));
} else f = f.shift().split(sep).concat(f);
} else f[x].replace(/""/g, '"');
} a[i] = f;
}
return a;
}
}
Regular expressions to the rescue! These few lines of code handle properly quoted fields with embedded commas, quotes, and newlines based on the RFC 4180 standard.
function parseCsv(data, fieldSep, newLine) {
fieldSep = fieldSep || ',';
newLine = newLine || '\n';
var nSep = '\x1D';
var qSep = '\x1E';
var cSep = '\x1F';
var nSepRe = new RegExp(nSep, 'g');
var qSepRe = new RegExp(qSep, 'g');
var cSepRe = new RegExp(cSep, 'g');
var fieldRe = new RegExp('(?<=(^|[' + fieldSep + '\\n]))"(|[\\s\\S]+?(?<![^"]"))"(?=($|[' + fieldSep + '\\n]))', 'g');
var grid = [];
data.replace(/\r/g, '').replace(/\n+$/, '').replace(fieldRe, function(match, p1, p2) {
return p2.replace(/\n/g, nSep).replace(/""/g, qSep).replace(/,/g, cSep);
}).split(/\n/).forEach(function(line) {
var row = line.split(fieldSep).map(function(cell) {
return cell.replace(nSepRe, newLine).replace(qSepRe, '"').replace(cSepRe, ',');
});
grid.push(row);
});
return grid;
}
const csv = 'A1,B1,C1\n"A ""2""","B, 2","C\n2"';
const separator = ','; // field separator, default: ','
const newline = ' <br /> '; // newline representation in case a field contains newlines, default: '\n'
var grid = parseCsv(csv, separator, newline);
// expected: [ [ 'A1', 'B1', 'C1' ], [ 'A "2"', 'B, 2', 'C <br /> 2' ] ]
You don't need a parser-generator such as lex/yacc. The regular expression handles RFC 4180 properly thanks to positive lookbehind, negative lookbehind, and positive lookahead.
Clone/download code at https://github.com/peterthoeny/parse-csv-js
Just throwing this out there.. I recently ran into the need to parse CSV columns with Javascript, and I opted for my own simple solution. It works for my needs, and may help someone else.
const csvString = '"Some text, some text",,"",true,false,"more text","more,text, more, text ",true';
const parseCSV = text => {
const lines = text.split('\n');
const output = [];
lines.forEach(line => {
line = line.trim();
if (line.length === 0) return;
const skipIndexes = {};
const columns = line.split(',');
output.push(columns.reduce((result, item, index) => {
if (skipIndexes[index]) return result;
if (item.startsWith('"') && !item.endsWith('"')) {
while (!columns[index + 1].endsWith('"')) {
index++;
item += `,${columns[index]}`;
skipIndexes[index] = true;
}
index++;
skipIndexes[index] = true;
item += `,${columns[index]}`;
}
result.push(item);
return result;
}, []));
});
return output;
};
console.log(parseCSV(csvString));
Personally I like to use deno std library since most modules are officially compatible with the browser
The problem is that the std is in typescript but official solution might happen in the future https://github.com/denoland/deno_std/issues/641 https://github.com/denoland/dotland/issues/1728
For now there is an actively maintained on the fly transpiler https://bundle.deno.dev/
so you can use it simply like this
<script type="module">
import { parse } from "https://bundle.deno.dev/https://deno.land/std#0.126.0/encoding/csv.ts"
console.log(await parse("a,b,c\n1,2,3"))
</script>
I have constructed this JavaScript script to parse a CSV in string to array object. I find it better to break down the whole CSV into lines, fields and process them accordingly. I think that it will make it easy for you to change the code to suit your need.
//
//
// CSV to object
//
//
const new_line_char = '\n';
const field_separator_char = ',';
function parse_csv(csv_str) {
var result = [];
let line_end_index_moved = false;
let line_start_index = 0;
let line_end_index = 0;
let csr_index = 0;
let cursor_val = csv_str[csr_index];
let found_new_line_char = get_new_line_char(csv_str);
let in_quote = false;
// Handle \r\n
if (found_new_line_char == '\r\n') {
csv_str = csv_str.split(found_new_line_char).join(new_line_char);
}
// Handle the last character is not \n
if (csv_str[csv_str.length - 1] !== new_line_char) {
csv_str += new_line_char;
}
while (csr_index < csv_str.length) {
if (cursor_val === '"') {
in_quote = !in_quote;
} else if (cursor_val === new_line_char) {
if (in_quote === false) {
if (line_end_index_moved && (line_start_index <= line_end_index)) {
result.push(parse_csv_line(csv_str.substring(line_start_index, line_end_index)));
line_start_index = csr_index + 1;
} // Else: just ignore line_end_index has not moved or line has not been sliced for parsing the line
} // Else: just ignore because we are in a quote
}
csr_index++;
cursor_val = csv_str[csr_index];
line_end_index = csr_index;
line_end_index_moved = true;
}
// Handle \r\n
if (found_new_line_char == '\r\n') {
let new_result = [];
let curr_row;
for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
curr_row = [];
for (var j = 0; j < result[i].length; j++) {
curr_row.push(result[i][j].split(new_line_char).join('\r\n'));
}
new_result.push(curr_row);
}
result = new_result;
}
return result;
}
function parse_csv_line(csv_line_str) {
var result = [];
//let field_end_index_moved = false;
let field_start_index = 0;
let field_end_index = 0;
let csr_index = 0;
let cursor_val = csv_line_str[csr_index];
let in_quote = false;
// Pretend that the last char is the separator_char to complete the loop
csv_line_str += field_separator_char;
while (csr_index < csv_line_str.length) {
if (cursor_val === '"') {
in_quote = !in_quote;
} else if (cursor_val === field_separator_char) {
if (in_quote === false) {
if (field_start_index <= field_end_index) {
result.push(parse_csv_field(csv_line_str.substring(field_start_index, field_end_index)));
field_start_index = csr_index + 1;
} // Else: just ignore field_end_index has not moved or field has not been sliced for parsing the field
} // Else: just ignore because we are in quote
}
csr_index++;
cursor_val = csv_line_str[csr_index];
field_end_index = csr_index;
field_end_index_moved = true;
}
return result;
}
function parse_csv_field(csv_field_str) {
with_quote = (csv_field_str[0] === '"');
if (with_quote) {
csv_field_str = csv_field_str.substring(1, csv_field_str.length - 1); // remove the start and end quotes
csv_field_str = csv_field_str.split('""').join('"'); // handle double quotes
}
return csv_field_str;
}
// Initial method: check the first newline character only
function get_new_line_char(csv_str) {
if (csv_str.indexOf('\r\n') > -1) {
return '\r\n';
} else {
return '\n'
}
}
Just use .split(','):
var str = "How are you doing today?";
var n = str.split(" ");
What is the best method for counting the number of times a string appears within a string using JS?
For example:
count("fat math cat", "at") returns 3
Use a regex and then the number of matches can be found from the returned array. This is the naive approach using regex.
'fat cat'.match(/at/g).length
To protect against cases where the string doesn't match, use:
( 'fat cat'.match(/at/g) || [] ).length
Here:
function count( string, substring ) {
var result = string.match( RegExp( '(' + substring + ')', 'g' ) );
return result ? result.length : 0;
}
Don't use this, it's overcomplicated:
function count(sample, searchTerm) {
if(sample == null || searchTerm == null) {
return 0;
}
if(sample.indexOf(searchTerm) == -1) {
return 0;
}
return count(sample.substring(sample.indexOf(searchTerm)+searchTerm.length), searchTerm)+1;
}
Can use indexOf in a loop:
function count(haystack, needle) {
var count = 0;
var idx = -1;
haystack.indexOf(needle, idx + 1);
while (idx != -1) {
count++;
idx = haystack.indexOf(needle, idx + 1);
}
return count;
}
function count(str,ma){
var a = new RegExp(ma,'g'); // Create a RegExp that searches for the text ma globally
return str.match(a).length; //Return the length of the array of matches
}
Then call it the way you did in your example. count('fat math cat','at');
You can use split also:
function getCount(str,d) {
return str.split(d).length - 1;
}
getCount("fat math cat", "at"); // return 3
I am build an autocomplete that searches off of a CouchDB View.
I need to be able to take the final character of the input string, and replace the last character with the next letter of the english alphabet. (No need for i18n here)
For Example:
Input String = "b"
startkey = "b"
endkey = "c"
OR
Input String = "foo"
startkey = "foo"
endkey = "fop"
(in case you're wondering, I'm making sure to include the option inclusive_end=false so that this extra character doesn't taint my resultset)
The Question
Is there a function natively in Javascript that can just get the next letter of the alphabet?
Or will I just need to suck it up and do my own fancy function with a base string like "abc...xyz" and indexOf()?
my_string.substring(0, my_string.length - 1)
+ String.fromCharCode(my_string.charCodeAt(my_string.length - 1) + 1)
// This will return A for Z and a for z.
function nextLetter(s){
return s.replace(/([a-zA-Z])[^a-zA-Z]*$/, function(a){
var c= a.charCodeAt(0);
switch(c){
case 90: return 'A';
case 122: return 'a';
default: return String.fromCharCode(++c);
}
});
}
A more comprehensive solution, which gets the next letter according to how MS Excel numbers it's columns... A B C ... Y Z AA AB ... AZ BA ... ZZ AAA
This works with small letters, but you can easily extend it for caps too.
getNextKey = function(key) {
if (key === 'Z' || key === 'z') {
return String.fromCharCode(key.charCodeAt() - 25) + String.fromCharCode(key.charCodeAt() - 25); // AA or aa
} else {
var lastChar = key.slice(-1);
var sub = key.slice(0, -1);
if (lastChar === 'Z' || lastChar === 'z') {
// If a string of length > 1 ends in Z/z,
// increment the string (excluding the last Z/z) recursively,
// and append A/a (depending on casing) to it
return getNextKey(sub) + String.fromCharCode(lastChar.charCodeAt() - 25);
} else {
// (take till last char) append with (increment last char)
return sub + String.fromCharCode(lastChar.charCodeAt() + 1);
}
}
return key;
};
Here is a function that does the same thing (except for upper case only, but that's easy to change) but uses slice only once and is iterative rather than recursive. In a quick benchmark, it's about 4 times faster (which is only relevant if you make really heavy use of it!).
function nextString(str) {
if (! str)
return 'A' // return 'A' if str is empty or null
let tail = ''
let i = str.length -1
let char = str[i]
// find the index of the first character from the right that is not a 'Z'
while (char === 'Z' && i > 0) {
i--
char = str[i]
tail = 'A' + tail // tail contains a string of 'A'
}
if (char === 'Z') // the string was made only of 'Z'
return 'AA' + tail
// increment the character that was not a 'Z'
return str.slice(0, i) + String.fromCharCode(char.charCodeAt(0) + 1) + tail
}
Just to explain the main part of the code that Bipul Yadav wrote (can't comment yet due to lack of reps). Without considering the loop, and just taking the char "a" as an example:
"a".charCodeAt(0) = 97...hence "a".charCodeAt(0) + 1 = 98 and String.fromCharCode(98) = "b"...so the following function for any letter will return the next letter in the alphabet:
function nextLetterInAlphabet(letter) {
if (letter == "z") {
return "a";
} else if (letter == "Z") {
return "A";
} else {
return String.fromCharCode(letter.charCodeAt(0) + 1);
}
}
var input = "Hello";
var result = ""
for(var i=0;i<input.length;i++)
{
var curr = String.fromCharCode(input.charCodeAt(i)+1);
result = result +curr;
}
console.log(result);
I understand the original question was about moving the last letter of the string forward to the next letter. But I came to this question more interested personally in changing all the letters in the string, then being able to undo that. So I took the code written by Bipul Yadav and I added some more code. The below code takes a series of letters, increments each of them to the next letter maintaining case (and enables Zz to become Aa), then rolls them back to the previous letter (and allows Aa to go back to Zz).
var inputValue = "AaZzHello";
console.log( "starting value=[" + inputValue + "]" );
var resultFromIncrementing = ""
for( var i = 0; i < inputValue.length; i++ ) {
var curr = String.fromCharCode( inputValue.charCodeAt(i) + 1 );
if( curr == "[" ) curr = "A";
if( curr == "{" ) curr = "a";
resultFromIncrementing = resultFromIncrementing + curr;
}
console.log( "resultFromIncrementing=[" + resultFromIncrementing + "]" );
inputValue = resultFromIncrementing;
var resultFromDecrementing = "";
for( var i2 = 0; i2 < inputValue.length; i2++ ) {
var curr2 = String.fromCharCode( inputValue.charCodeAt(i2) - 1 );
if( curr2 == "#" ) curr2 = "Z";
if( curr2 == "`" ) curr2 = "z";
resultFromDecrementing = resultFromDecrementing + curr2;
}
console.log( "resultFromDecrementing=[" + resultFromDecrementing + "]" );
The output of this is:
starting value=[AaZzHello]
resultFromIncrementing=[BbAaIfmmp]
resultFromDecrementing=[AaZzHello]