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<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<title>Zippy Test</title> | |
<script type="text/javascript" src="zippy.js"></script> | |
<script type="text/javascript"> | |
console.profile(); | |
var kv_str = 'foo,bar,baz|1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9', | |
zippy_list = string_to_zippy(kv_str, true), | |
zippy_json = JSON.stringify(zippy_list); | |
console.group('"%s" is %s bytes', kv_str, kv_str.length); | |
console.log('final list of dicts: %o', zippy_list); | |
console.log('"%s" is %s bytes', zippy_json, zippy_json.length); | |
console.groupEnd(); | |
console.profileEnd(); | |
</script> | |
</head> | |
<body></body> | |
</html> |
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/** | |
* @param {Array} keys | |
* @param {Array} vals | |
* @param {Boolean} convert_numbers | |
*/ | |
function zippy(keys, vals, convert_numbers) { | |
var i = 0, l = keys.length, o, obj, list = []; | |
while (o = vals.slice(i,i+l)) { | |
if (!o.length) break; | |
obj = {}; | |
o.forEach(function(val, index){ | |
if (!convert_numbers) { | |
obj[keys[index]] = val; | |
} else if (val.replace(/[^\d]+/g, '') === val) { | |
obj[keys[index]] = parseInt(val); | |
} else if (val.replace(/[^\d\.]+/g, '') === val) { | |
obj[keys[index]] = parseFloat(val); | |
} else { | |
obj[keys[index]] = val; | |
} | |
}); | |
list.push(obj); | |
i += l; | |
} | |
return list; | |
} | |
function string_to_zippy(str, convert_numbers, kvsep, isep) { | |
var key_value_separator = kvsep||'|', | |
inner_separator = isep||',', | |
kv_separated = str.split(key_value_separator), | |
keys = kv_separated.shift().split(inner_separator), | |
values = kv_separated.pop().split(inner_separator); | |
return zippy(keys, values, convert_numbers); | |
} |
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