Issue in searching for word in sentence and replacing it
Ok here is the situation. Using a series of sentences stored in a string, in this case called "str", I have to write some code to look through each sentence, and if the sentence does NOT contain the word "arr" then, with a 50/50 chance add "Arr" to the beginning of the sentence... With the code I have below, I believe I am very close.
when the program is run, it displays the following;
,72,94 The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. I like nachos. I am batman. Well hello there arr. 0 The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Arr I like nachos. I am batman
this is just outputting some of the data so I can see what is going on.
the first part, that reads ",72,94" is the string that contains the index values locating all of the periods in the sentence. However it only displays the last 2 values. The next part that reads "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. I like nachos. I am batman. Well hello there arr." is the original sentence stored in the "str". I display this to make sure that the origonal data is not molested as the loop runs. so this checks out. The number 0 is the random number value, and each time the page is refreshed it will display a number between 0 and ten.
This is all displaying the data and results I am looking for...
the problem is with the last data set that diaplays "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Arr I like nachos. I am batman "
as you can see the replacement is working so far... the second sentence now starts with "Arr" and if you refresh the beginning of the second and third sentences have a 50/50 chance of having this "Arr" Yet the last sentence is dropped... I suspect it is because of the way I got the index values. I am not sure, but I believe that as each pass goes through, and each time the sting containing the comma separated index values (periodIndex) has the first value removed, it hits a problem when only one variable is available.. So when it tries to create the "second" variable based on data from the index2 and index3 (which are the index locations of the commas on each side of the number in the string "periodIndex") variables, it stops when there is no index 3 (because eventually there is only a single variable left; 94, and so the variable index3 returns null)
I need this to be able to apply this "arr" filter on any sentence or series of sentences that are fetched from the "str" string. Any help understanding why it is dropping the last sentence would be greatly appreciated
HTML Code:
<html><body><script type="text/javascript">
var str="The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. I like nachos. I am batman. Well hello there arr.";
var patt1=/\./g; //used to search for periods
var periodIndex = ""; //assigns blank variable for later use
while (patt1.test(str)==true) //loop creates list in periodIndex that includes the index locations of each period, seperated by commas
{
periodIndex += "," + patt1.lastIndex;
};
// below this line is the code to check each sentence
var str2 = str.substring(0,str.indexOf(".")); //creates temporary string that contains first sentence, as it does not have a period in front of it
for (var j = 0; j < periodIndex.length; j=j+5) {
var randomNumber=Math.floor(Math.random()*11) //creates a random number between 0 and ten
var index1 = periodIndex.indexOf(","); //creates variable of index location of first comma in periodIndex list
var index2 = periodIndex.indexOf(",", index1 + 1); //creates variable for second comma in period index list
var index3 = periodIndex.indexOf(",", index2 + 1); // creates variable for third comma in period index list
var first = periodIndex.slice(index1 + 1,index2); //creates numerical value containing first number set in periodIndex
var second = periodIndex.slice(index2 + 1,index3); // creates numerical value containing second number set in periodIndex
//alert(periodIndex.slice(index2 + 1,index3));
//alert(second);
//alert(periodIndex.length);
var temp = str.substring(first -1,second -1);//creates string containing first sentence that has a period in front of it
var patt=/arr/g; //used to search for "arr"
var result=patt.test(temp); //checks if the sentence stored in temp contains the phrase "arr"
//alert(result);
if(result == 0) // if there is no "arr" in the temp sentence run random number if loop
{
if(randomNumber >= 5) // if random number is greater than or equal to 5 replaces the period at the beginning of the sentence with ". Arr"
{
temp = temp.replace(".", ". Arr");
}
}
str2 += temp //adds the temp data to the end of str2
periodIndex = periodIndex.slice(index2); //removes the used index values from periodIndex
}
document.write(periodIndex + "\r" + str + "\r" + randomNumber + "\r" + str2);
</script></body></html>
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Code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var
str = 'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. I like nachos. I am batman. Well hello there arr.',
data, i;
data = str.split(/\.\s*/g);
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
if (data[i] && (data[i].toLowerCase().indexOf('arr') === -1) && (Math.random() > 0.5)) {
data[i] = 'Arr ' + data[i];
}
}
document.write(data.join('. '));
</script>
Script breaks up the string, checks is "arr" exists anywhere in each array member, then theres a 50% chance it prepends "Arr" to the beginning. Sticks it all back together and writes it to the screen.
The \s is for white space characters, like spaces, tabs etc.
* means that it can match zero or more characters (\s characters).
So im basically just removing any spaces that are following the "."
Issue in searching for word in sentence and replacing it
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