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20 String Methods in 7 Minutes – Beau teaches JavaScript



String methods featured in this video: charAt, charCodeAt, concat, endsWith, fromCharCode, includes, indexOf, lastIndexOf, match, repeat, replace, search, slice, split, startsWith, substr, substring, toLowerCase, toUpperCase, trim.

Code:
🔗 http://codepen.io/beaucarnes/pen/qRLzNX?editors=0012

Other resources on topic:
🔗 https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_string.asp

Beau Carnes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnesbeau

⭐JavaScript Playlists⭐
▶JavaScript Basics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbk2qRZtWSzCIN38JC_NdhW5
▶ES6: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbljtmmeS0c-CEl2LdE-eR_F
▶Design Patterns: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbnZtkAI3BqcYxKnfWn_C704
▶Data Structures and Algorithms: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbkso-IbgiiP48n-O-JQA9PJ
▶Clean Code: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbkK24EaPurzMq0-kw5U9pJh

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23 responses to “20 String Methods in 7 Minutes – Beau teaches JavaScript”

  1. Excuse me for a very stupid, layman question, but what is the point in having things being returned in the console and not on the site itself? I've seen some of the more overt uses of JS, but I'm having a major blockage in learning the use of it. Hell, i'm even starting to understand the syntax pretty well without understanding the point! Any advice is massive. Thank you!

  4. <html>

    <head>

    <script type="text/javascript">

    var a = "mahesh";

    var b = "naresh";

    for(var i=0;i<a.length;i++){

    for(var j=0;j<b.length;j++){

    if(a.charAt(i)==b.charAt(j)){

    a.replace(a.charAt(i),'');

    b.replace(b.charAt(j),'');

    i–;

    break;

    }

    }

    }

    document.write("<h2>"+a+" "+b+"</h2>");

    </script>

    </head>

    </html>

    why my code isn't working?

  8. In my opinion, for beginners is far more effective to learn – how to interact with object types – using LOOPS and CONDITIONALS then to learn a dozen of prototype methods. Not saying that you DON'T need to learn it though.

  9. Grand Summary

    charAt – returns character at specified index, myString.charAt(1) will return SECOND letter of string myString.

    charCodeAt – same as charAt but returns unicode instead.

    concat – concatenates string1 and string2, string1.concat(string2) // string1+string2

    endsWith – condition check to determine if a given string ends with a certain character or string; string1.endsWith("abc")
    ,
    fromCharCode – converts unicode values to characters, it is a static method of the String object, so you type String.fromCharCode(desiredCharCode) , where String is the string object and not any arbitrary string.

    includes – checks whether the string includes a specified character/string..

    indexOf – tells the index of a specified string or character in the input string; inputString.indexOf("Dog"). In case of TWO or more occurrences of the same string/char in the inputString, it will tell index of only the first occurrence !

    lastIndexOf – same as indexOf() but returns the index of the LAST occurrence of the specified char or string in the input string.

    match – searches the input string for matches of the REGULAR EXPRESSION specified and returns them in an array.

    repeat – repeats the string a specified number of times, inputString.repeat(3) // 3 times repeat inputString !

    replace – searches a string for a specific sub-string or REGULAR EXPRESSION and replaces it with the specified string. inputString.replace("end", "END")

    search – searches the string for a specified sub-string or REGULAR EXPRESSION and tells it's position.

    slice – slices or extracts a specified portion of the inputString. inputString.slice(2,4), returns the stuff from index 2 till index 3

    split – splits the string, into an array of sub-strings, upon the occurrence of the character specified. e.g inputString.split(" ") will split the string EVERYTIME a space (" ") occurs in the inputString and push the character coming UP TILL the space as a new entry in the array. ( but not including the space itself ? )

    startsWith – checks if a string begins with a specified character/sub-string; conditional check.

    substr – similar to slice, extracts a sub-string from the inputString, starting from the given initialIndex, and going up to the number of subsequentDigits, including the character at initialIndex in the count as well. inputString.substr(initialIndex, subsequentDigits) . Watch in video if it's hard to understand.

    substring – Ditto copy of slice, better to look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/2243835 for a better understanding of differences.

    toLowerCase – makes ALL the letters in string to lower case

    toUpperCase – exact opposite of toLowerCase() .

    trim – removes WhiteSpace from EITHER SIDE of the inputString; inputString.trim().

  16. Thank You Beau, the code pen was super helpful actually, I was getting confused on algorithms because of syntax and I kept getting more and more confused. After coming back from a few day break I found this string methods module and now I can test strings on it every time. MDN seems over complicated they should be simplifying complex problems as you are here.

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