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Create WKT POLYGON from a bounding box in JavaScript
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bbox-to-wkt-polygon.js
var str = "POLYGON((left top,right top,right bottom,left bottom,left top))";
var bbox = {left: 10, top: 30, right: 20, bottom: 40};
str.replace(/[a-z]+/g, function(s) {return bbox[s];});
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var str = "POLYGON((left top,right top,right bottom,left bottom,left top))";
var bbox = {left: 10, top: 30, right: 20, bottom: 40}; 
str = str.replace(/left/g, function(s) {return bbox[s];});
str = str.replace(/top/g, function(s) {return bbox[s];});
str = str.replace(/right/g, function(s) {return bbox[s];});
str = str.replace(/bottom/g, function(s) {return bbox[s];});

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