If you are writing a JScript and need a way to copy some text to the clipboard, you can use the following definition: Here is an example code block that calls this function: This function relies on the existence of Internet Explorer on the PC. Of course, this function is Read more…
Have you ever wondered how you can recursively call a JScript? Here is an example which shows how it can be done: It is important to note that the above example will not pass any variables that were passed to it. If you want to try this out on your Read more…
One of my favorite things about JavaScript is the ability to use certain functions to do unexpected things. The following shows you the code that could be used to imitate Prototype’s corresponding function: Basically the above code creates a new array has a length of the specified number plus one. Read more…
One of the things that I love about string manipulation is the existence of regular expressions. For this reason, I have decided to share a few examples that may help those who are learning about regular expressions so that can understand them a bit better. JavaScript – General Variable Name Read more…
I was surfing the internet a bit today and starting thinking about universally unique IDs. I came across this site which generates the UUIDs on the server side and then decided to make my own pseudo globally unique ID generator: You can use this function to generate as many UUIDs Read more…
As many of you may know, in JavaScript, you can define a date object by specifying a string that looks like a date. Recently I created a page using AJAX to get counter information, including the date/time that the page was hit. I thought that a pretty straight-forward format that Read more…
The following is an implementation of a binary search for arrays which gives you the ability to do fuzzy matches (default), exact matches, or specify your own comparison function: I used the following to test the normal execution of this binary function:
Sometimes I want to be able to write code like the following so that I can substitute a placeholder for a given substring: In order to get the above code to work, I wrote the following function: This function will take an arbitrary amount of arguments and return the string Read more…
Over the years, I have seen many different techniques for emulating the InputBox and MsgBox functions in JScript, but none of them were quite as elegant as the one I saw here. Once I dug into the code and realized that ScriptControl was making it so that JScript could run Read more…
The answer to last week’s Problem of the Week is that the following definitions represent the factorial of the given non-negative integer: Mathematical Definition Function Definition Condition unnamed(n) = 1 if n = 0 n × unnamed(n – 1) if n > 0 JavaScript Definition Although it may have been Read more…