http://www.justise.com/2007/12/28/stringsupplant-a-jewel-from-douglas-crockford/ Programming - Development Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.justise.com/2007/12/28/stringsupplant-a-jewel-from-douglas-crockford/comment-page-1/#comment-4705 Ruben Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:51:32 +0000 http://blackbeltcoder.net/2007/12/28/stringsupplant-a-jewel-from-douglas-crockford/#comment-4705 Douglas Crockford's jewel handles just one level object hierarchy. Following small modification handles any object. Placeholders now can include dotted notation - {foo.boo.moo.uff....}. I call it present() - because it looks ideal for presenting preformatted object's values String.prototype.present = function(o) { return this.replace(/{([^{}]*)}/g, function(a, b) { var p = b.split('.'); var r = o; try { for(s in pat) {r = r[p[s]]}; } catch(e){ r = a;} return typeof r === 'string' || typeof r === 'number' ? r : a; } ); }; Douglas Crockford’s jewel handles just one level object hierarchy.
Following small modification handles any object.
Placeholders now can include dotted notation – {foo.boo.moo.uff….}.
I call it present() – because it looks ideal for presenting preformatted object’s values
String.prototype.present = function(o)
{ return this.replace(/{([^{}]*)}/g,
function(a, b)
{
var p = b.split(‘.’);
var r = o;
try
{
for(s in pat) {r = r[p[s]]};
}
catch(e){ r = a;}
return typeof r === ’string’ || typeof r === ‘number’ ? r : a;
}
);
};

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