What are useful JavaScript methods that extends built-in objects? [closed]

Answer 1

// This replaces all instances of 'from' to 'to' even when
// 'from' and 'to' are similar (i.e .replaceAll('a', 'a '))
String.prototype.replaceAll = function(from, to) {
    var k = this;
    var i = 0;
    var j = from.length;
    var l = to.length;

    while (i <= k.length)
        if (k.substring(i, i + j) == from) {
        k = k.substring(0, i) + k.substring(i).replace(from, to);
        i += l;
    }
    else
        i++;

    return k;
};

Answer 2

Use something like the underscore.js library or for Angular use lodash library.

Answer 3

// left trim
String.prototype.ltrim = function () {
    return this.replace(/^\s+/, '');
}

// right trim
String.prototype.rtrim = function () {
    return this.replace(/\s+$/, '');
}

// left and right trim
String.prototype.trim = function () {
    return this.ltrim().rtrim();
}

Answer 4

I have used the Array.Map function outlined by Scott Koon a couple of times.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/2009/08/12/a-simple-map-function-for-plain-javascript-arrays/

Array.prototype.map = function(fn) {
    var r = [];
    var l = this.length;
    for(i=0;i<l;i++)
    {
        r.push(fn(this[i]));
    }
    return r; 
};

Answer 5

A collection of functions I use a lot can be found here:

http://svn.asplib.org/asplib1.2/core/string.asp

http://docs.hyperweb.no/objects/String/

Answer 6

Here's another implementation of String.replaceAll() method

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replace) {
    if (replace === undefined) {
        return this.toString();
    }
    return this.split(search).join(replace);
}

The difference between this one and solution posted here is that this implementation handles correctly regexp special characters in strings as well as allows for word matching