Case insensitive String startsWith, contains, endsWith, replaceAll method

[Biju]

On 16 February 2013 20:26, David Bruant <bruant.d at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 17/02/2013 00:58, Biju a écrit :

> Also, it doesn't seem that hard to implement:
>     String.prototype.startsWithI = function(s){
>         this.match(new RegExp('^'+s, 'i'));
>     }

you also made the common error any developer make
(I am ignoring you have missed the "return" keyword)
If people at es-discuss can make error,
how can you expect an average IT developer get it right.

test this

s="fddfd(ghgg"
new RegExp('^'+s, 'i')

Error!!!


> And sometimes, case-sensitive is what you want.
i agree, that is why I mentioned to add matchCase parameter.
or have startsWithI, containsI, endsWithI instead

>> Additionally we should have a String.replaceAll method right now web
>> developers are using complex logic to achieve the same.
>
>     "aA".replace(/a/ig, 'b'); // 'bb'
> I feel the "i" and "g" flag or regexps aren't that complex. One just needs
> to know about them.

Again you are missing the point that the first parameter of "replace"
at many times have to be a variable with a value which was taken from
user input.


We you cant agree on replaceAll can we atleast bring mozilla
non-standard flags parameter for String.replace as standard.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace#Syntax

You can see a lot of people asking for "replace all occurrences"
https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+replace+all+occurrences

cheers
Biju