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More fun with strings: dojo.string.contains()

November 29th, 2009
Posted in Dojo Love . Experiments in Web . Goodies to go
By Jens Arps

In the series “convenience wrappers for small tasks that increase code readability”, today contains() is starring. Having a contains() method could also serve another purpose: to maybe prevent people from using match() to find out if a string contains a given substring (what is still proposed in some JS tutorials out there…). So, I want [ READ MORE ]

dojo.string.beginsWith()

October 27th, 2009
Posted in Dojo Love . Goodies to go
By Jens Arps

Most cases where you find String.substr() in the wild are to check if a given string begins with a certain other string. Be it checking for a prefix or sorting out zipcodes that begin with certain numbers. And because code readability is a good thing (really, it is important), it would be nice to have [ READ MORE ]

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