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September 4, 2013 21:33
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Here's a lodash mixin that works sort of like _.filter(), however the matching items will be removed from the source array.
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_.mixin({ | |
'multiSplice': function (array, indexes) { | |
if (!_.isArray(array) || !_.isArray(indexes) || !_.all(indexes, _.isNumber)) { | |
return []; | |
} | |
var results = []; | |
if (indexes.length > 0) { | |
var i = indexes.length - 1; | |
for (; i >= 0; i--) { | |
if (array.length > i) { | |
results.push(array.splice(indexes[i], 1)[0]); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return results.reverse(); | |
}, | |
'extract': function (collection, predicate) { | |
if (!_.isFunction(predicate)) { | |
return []; | |
} | |
var indexes = []; | |
_.each(collection, function (value, index) { | |
if (predicate.call(value, value, index, collection)) { | |
indexes.push(index); | |
} | |
}); | |
return _.multiSplice(collection, indexes); | |
} | |
}); |
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var names = ["Jesse", "Pat", "John"]; | |
var extractedNames = _.extract(names, function(name) { | |
return name === "Jesse" || name === "Pat"; | |
}); | |
// names => ["John"] | |
// extractedNames => ["Jesse", "Pat"] |
Wow. And they do it much more beautifully! Thanks for the heads up.
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Something like this is in Lo-Dash edge atm. It's called _.remove.