One thing that I often have to do is convert a subquery into a string that is delimited by a comma. For example, I may need to write a quick report that shows the users’ names, their login ID, and all of the roles that they fulfill. In this case, Read more…
Here is a little snippet that you may find useful if you ever have to randomize the contents of an array: Here is an example of how to use it with an array: The above example will show the names that are in the names array in random order. If Read more…
In VBScript, there is a space function which takes an integer and returns a string with the specified number of spaces. At times, you may need such a function to make you text look neat while working with a monospace font. Here is the code that you could use to Read more…
If you have ever written JavaScript for a web page, one of the first things that you learned may have been that the window object is basically a reference to the global scope. On the other hand, if you have ever programmed in JScript (Windows Scripting Host), you will know Read more…
As a follow-up to my previous article about the AND (&&) and OR (||) logical operators, I decided to create to Array prototype functions that mimic these operators to a certain degree: Here are two examples of using a series of AND (&&) operators and then doing the same thing Read more…
It seems that one of the top complaints about the Array.prototype.forEach() function is the fact that there is no easy way to break out of the loop. If you are one of those people that would like to see an implementation, here you go: Calling this function would be similar Read more…
As I was writing jPaq v2.0, one of the things I wanted in quite a few cases were functions in which the this object could be parameterized without using the theFunction.apply() function or the theFunction.call(). Here is an example of what is often done with native prototypal functions: Even though, Read more…
Have you ever had to work with a spreadsheet which contained a column full of dates, but you actually needed to see column full of the corresponding days of the week by name? Believe it or not, translating dates to the name of the day of the week is quite Read more…
At times, I have had to add commas to numbers in order to make them look better in different applications. Even though there isn’t a native way to do this in JavaScript, the code can be quite short, sweet and to the point: The downside of the above function is Read more…
While testing out jPaq v2.0 in IE6 on GoToChrisWest.com, I found an IE6 bug (go figure). The issue can be illustrated with the following code: The above code should display one thing in the alert box: toString. Unfortunately, when you run the above code in IE6, nothing is displayed to Read more…