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Deep Copy of Arrays

With jPaq and many other JavaScript libraries, it is very easy to do a shallow copy of an array. On the other hand, it isn’t as easy to do a deep copy of arrays. For this reason, I plan on replacing the Array.prototype.clone() function with the following: The above code Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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Power Set

As I was beefing up my past implementation of cartesianProductOf(), I decided to look into set theory a little bit more. After looking through some Wikipedia pages, I found another process that may be of interest to JavaScript programmers that have to deal with sets: a JavaScript implementation of finding Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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Currying Up More Examples

A few weeks ago, I wrote an example page on jPaq.org for using the curry function to easily add prototypal functions to the String object. As I was playing around with jPaq, I thought of a few more examples: All of those examples will work with jPaq 1.0 or higher. Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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String.prototype.expandTabs()

I personally love both JavaScript and Python. For this reason, from time to time I like to port functions that are available in Python, over to JavaScript. The following is a port of the expandTabs function. The biggest difference between this JavaScript version and the Python version is the limitation Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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String.protototype.toCharCodes()

One of the functions that didn’t make the cut for jPaq is String.prototype.toCharCodes().  The reason is I don’t feel that it is a function that many people are looking for.  Still, if you are looking for a good implementation for it, you can use this: [sourcecode language=”javascript”] String.prototype.toCharCodes = function() Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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getMatches(str, exp)

I recently encountered two troubling bugs with jPaq’s String.prototype.indexOfPattern() function.  In order to fix it, I ended up exploring the powerful String.prototype.replace() function, exploiting the parameter passed into the callback function.  I already knew that the matched text and sub-groups were passed into the callback function.  The thing that I Read more…

By Chris West, ago
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No jPaq.openWindow() For Now

Up until today, I was interested in writing a more object oriented version of the native window.open() function.  Unfortunately, I found out that there are some major incompatibility issues between browsers.  Let’s take this example for instance: [sourcecode language=”js”] window.open(“http://google.com/”, “”, “left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,height=400”); window.open(“http://google.com/”, “”, “left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,width=400”); [/sourcecode] As you may have Read more…

By Chris West, ago