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JavaScript utility to split a string into array that includes the delimiter and can ignore case
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/* | |
* Example splitWithDelimiter({query: 'the', suggestion: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.', shouldIgnoreCase: true}) | |
* Evaluates to ['The', ' quick brown fox jumps over ', 'the', ' lazy dog.']; | |
*/ | |
function splitWithDelimiter ({delimiter, target, shouldIgnoreCase}) { | |
const result = []; | |
const formattedTarget = shouldIgnoreCase ? target.toLowerCase() : target; | |
const formattedDelimiter = shouldIgnoreCase ? delimiter.toLowerCase() : delimiter; | |
const doesStartWithDelimiter = formattedTarget.startsWith(formattedDelimiter); | |
const doesEndWithDelimiter = formattedTarget.endsWith(formattedDelimiter); | |
const mismatchedFragments = formattedTarget.split(formattedDelimiter); | |
let resultLength = 0; | |
if (doesStartWithDelimiter) { | |
result.push(target.substring(0, delimiter.length)); | |
resultLength = delimiter.length; | |
} | |
mismatchedFragments.forEach((fragment, index) => { | |
if (!fragment) return; | |
result.push(target.substring(resultLength, resultLength + fragment.length)); | |
resultLength += fragment.length; | |
if (index < mismatchedFragments.length && resultLength < target.length) { | |
const characters = target.substring(resultLength, resultLength + delimiter.length); | |
result.push(characters); | |
resultLength += delimiter.length; | |
} | |
}) | |
if (doesEndWithDelimiter) { | |
result.push(target.substring(target.length - delimiter.length, target.length)); | |
} | |
return result; | |
} |
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