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Created January 15, 2013 16:03
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Wraps a substring of a string with the given prefix and suffix, ignoring case for finding while still respecting it in the resulting string.
/** Wraps a substring with the given prefix and suffix in a string.
*
*@param {String} hay The string in which the replacement is to occur.
*@param {String} needle The string to look for. Will be wrapped without case sensitivity, but will respect the case of the original string.
@param {String} prefix The string to insert before `needle`.
@param {String} suffix The string to insert after `needle`.
*/
function wrap(hay, needle, prefix, suffix) {
var lowHay = hay.toLowerCase(),
lowNeedle = needle.toLowerCase(),
index = lowHay.indexOf(lowNeedle);
if (index <= -1)
return hay;
return hay.slice(0, index)
+ prefix
+ hay.slice(index, index + needle.length)
+ suffix
+ hay.slice(index + needle.length);
}
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