Thanks to @atk for the "recursive regex"-solution. It is even less than 140 bytes and "inlines" the subset of characters into the function. I think this could be much more interesting than my approach.
function a(b,c,d){d=Math.random()*99;return++c?'aeioubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'.charAt(c&1?d%19+5:d%5):Array(b+1).join('.').replace(/./g,a)}| function ( | |
| a, // an integer, how long should or word be | |
| b, // an array containing the vowels | |
| c, // an array containing the consonants | |
| d, // word-placeholder | |
| e // random()-placeholder | |
| ) { | |
| d = ''; | |
| for (a = a>>1 || 1; a--;) | |
| d += c[(e=Math.random()) * c.length | 0] + b[e * b.length | 0]; | |
| return d | |
| } |
| function(a,b,c,d,e){d='';for(a=a>>1||1;a--;)d+=c[(e=Math.random())* c.length |0]+b[e * b.length |0];return d} |
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| { | |
| "name": "randomWord", | |
| "description": 'Generate a "valid" random word with vowels and consonants.', | |
| "keywords": [ | |
| "word", | |
| "random", | |
| "generate", | |
| "string", | |
| "lorem" | |
| ] | |
| } |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <title>randomWord</title> | |
| <div>Expected value: <b>A randomized word with 10 characters.</b></div> | |
| <div>Actual value: <b id="ret"></b></div> | |
| <script> | |
| var randomWord = function(a,b,c,d,e){d='';for(a=a>>1||1;a--;)d+=c[(e=Math.random())* c.length |0]+b[e * b.length |0];return d}; | |
| var vowels = 'aeiou'.split(''); | |
| var consonants = 'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'.split(''); | |
| document.getElementById('ret').innerHTML += randomWord(10, vowels, consonants); | |
| </script> |
@atk Awesome! I like your idea, really... Problem is, that not any language has the same subset of foreign characters. So I think it's the better choice to let the user define their own character-set/s. Anyway, your Idea is great, I'll note it in the readme...
In that case, you can at least replace a/2|0 with a>>1
@atk Good point, updated it!
@atk, (Array(b+1)+'').replace(/./g,a) would be shorter than Array(b+1).join('.').replace(/./g,a)
With a little recursive regex magick, we can incorporate vowels and consonants into the function: