When looking for examples of generator function definitions, one of the foremost that you will find is one for generating the fibonacci sequence. One of the great things about the upcoming version of JavaScript is the fact that it will Read more…
One of the things that I have noticed about bitwise operations in JavaScript is that it can be convenient for smaller values, but doesn’t always work for larger values. The reason this is the case is because bitwise operators will Read more…
Let’s say that we have a table of grades that students received during a school year. The columns are as follows: student_id quarter1 quarter2 quarter3 quarter4 If you had to display the highest grade that a student received for a Read more…
Now Available in YourJS For those of you who don’t know too much about regular expressions or just want to be able to replace every occurrence of a substring with something else, perhaps this definition for the replaceAll() function of Read more…
A few weeks ago, while analyzing some of the CSS code for jQuery, I noticed a call to the swap() function. After looking through the definition of the function and reading the reason for using it in the documentation, I Read more…
One of the newer functions that was added as of the 5th edition of ECMA-262 is Date.now(). This function returns the number of milliseconds that have passed since January 1, 1970 at midnight GMT time (UTC). If you desire to Read more…
Purpose of the valueOf() Function Let me start off by explaining the commonly misunderstood valueOf() function. The purpose of this function is to return a primitive which represents the specified object. Why is this necessary? Let’s use the following code Read more…
Unfortunately, after googling for a while, I was unable to find a COALESCE function or something similar that natively exists within Excel. Therefore, I decided to write a quick-and-dirty formula that would approximate it. I used the following array formula Read more…
One of the nice things about JavaScript is its functional nature. This is especially nice when it comes to dealing with strings and regular expressions. For instance, in JavaScript, you can use the following code to capitalize every other letter Read more…
One of the things that is often used in the JavaScript Prototype library is the camelize function which camel-cases the specified string. Unfortunately, just as this function doesn’t exist natively in JavaScript, it also doesn’t in VBScript. If you do Read more…