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Re: String Processing in JavaScript

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On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:30:10 +0100, Mike Winter
<usenet@michael-winter.me.invalid> wrote:

>On 31/08/2012 23:56, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>       I have to delete because of how String.indexOf() works.  It does
>> not have a string start point.
>
>Yes it does. The String.prototype.indexOf method has a second, optional 
>argument that specifies the position (zero-based, inclusive) from which 
>the search begins. The same applies to String.prototype.lastIndexOf 
>except that the default start is obviously the string length (the end) 
>rather than 0.

     Somehow, I missed that.  Maybe, a dodgy site.

     Thank you.

>For what it's worth, you can't actually delete characters from a string. 
>Strings are immutable and any changes are separate, modified copies 
>(with all the performance implications that may bring).

     At the abstract level I am operating at, yes, you can.  The
implementation details do not matter so much to me as long as I get
reasonable performance.  That stated, I do prefer to not change things
if I need not.  It tends to be faster, and lets me ignore more of the
things under the hood.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-31 15:56 -0700
  Re: String Processing in JavaScript Mike Winter <usenet@michael-winter.me.invalid> - 2012-09-01 02:30 +0100
    Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-02 17:56 -0700
  Re: String Processing in JavaScript Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2012-08-31 22:30 -0400
    Re: String Processing in JavaScript "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-08-31 21:47 -0600
      Re: String Processing in JavaScript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-09-01 08:51 +0000
        Re: String Processing in JavaScript "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-09-01 08:38 -0600
      Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-02 18:04 -0700
        Re: String Processing in JavaScript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-09-03 16:30 +0000
        Re: String Processing in JavaScript Mike Winter <usenet@michael-winter.me.invalid> - 2012-09-03 21:23 +0100
          Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-03 14:26 -0700
  Re: String Processing in JavaScript Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-03 19:29 +0200
    Re: String Processing in JavaScript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-03 21:45 +0200
    Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-03 14:27 -0700
      Re: String Processing in JavaScript Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-04 00:48 +0200
        Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-03 17:20 -0700
        Re: String Processing in JavaScript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-04 10:06 +0100
          Re: String Processing in JavaScript Ross McKay <au.org.zeta.at.rosko@invalid.invalid> - 2012-09-04 20:02 +1000
          Re: String Processing in JavaScript Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-04 08:47 -0700

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