substring and substr

[PIEBALDconsult]

Do they not have a mid? Someone needs to get on that.

[Keith Barrow]

And Splice. And Push, Pop, Shift, Unshift. Also the context of the value "this".:mad: Also numbers as floats.:mad::mad::mad: Been teaching JS recently and might be getting jaded by the feature-ridden design....

KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

String.prototype.mid = function(index1, indexb) { this.slice(index1, indexb); }

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[Marc Clifton]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Javascript deserves a slapping.

There. That's all that needs to be said. Marc

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[Ranjan D]

How about slice? are we gonna slice them :laugh: Slice vs Substr vs Substring http://jsperf.com/slice-vs-substr-vs-substring-methods-long-string/3[^]

Ranjan.D

[Pete OHanlon]

Still relevant[^] after all this time.

[Rage]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Whoever decided these both needed to be in Javascript deserves a slapping.

FTFY

Do not escape reality : improve reality !

[Nicholas Marty]

I kinda expected the book to be empty :laugh:

[Mark_Wallace]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Whoever decided ... deserves a slapping.

Ooh, don't say that! Our formerly resident tory politician would be back in a flash to claim guilt!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[E Anderson]

Or the lack of a trim() function.