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Created February 25, 2012 20:45
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rotateString in 55 bytes

Rotate string

This function will rotate a string either forwards or backwards, and does so in 9155 bytes. For example, "hello" shifted by 3 is "llohe" and "123456789" shifted by -37 is "234567891".

function(a, // The text to rotate
b) // The amount to shift by
{
return
a.slice(b%=a.length) // Get a slice starting at the shift amount and going to the end of the string
// Also modulo shift by the text length to make sure we stay inside
+a.slice(0,b) // Add on a slice from the beginning of the string to the shift amount
}
function(a,b){return a.slice(b%=a.length)+a.slice(0,b)}
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Noah Weninger <https://github.com/xpansive>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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{
"name": "rotateString",
"description": "Rotates the text in strings either forwards or backwards.",
"keywords": [
"string",
"rotate",
"shift"
]
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>rotateString example</title>
<pre id=out onmouseover="inc=-1" onmouseout="inc=1"></pre>
<script>
var rotateString = function(a,b){return a.slice(b%=a.length)+a.slice(0,b)};
var shift = 0, inc = 1;
setInterval(function() {
document.getElementById("out").innerHTML = rotateString("140byt.es rules! ", shift += inc);
}, 100);
</script>
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Saved 36 bytes by rewriting it the obvious way...

function(a,b){return a.slice(b%=a.length)+a.slice(0,b)}

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atk commented Mar 19, 2012

Save 5 bytes more by becoming even more obvious...
function(a){return a.split('').reverse().join('')}

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maettig commented Mar 20, 2012

rotate is more like shift. reverse is a different function. If you want to do this with array functions it would be something like this:

function(a,b){for(a=a.split('');b--;)a.push(a.shift());return a.join('')}

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atk commented Mar 20, 2012

Sorry, missed that.

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