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Created February 19, 2014 11:51
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Create character groups from a source string
// GroupCharacters('abc', 2)
// ["ab", "c"]
function GroupCharacters(sourceString, groupLength)
{
return sourceString.split('').reduce(function(groupedStrings, currentCharacter) {
var lastGrouping = groupedStrings.pop();
if(lastGrouping.length < groupLength)
{
lastGrouping += currentCharacter;
groupedStrings.push(lastGrouping);
}
else
{
groupedStrings.push(lastGrouping);
groupedStrings.push(String(currentCharacter));
}
return groupedStrings;
}, ['']);
}
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