I would like to use create a object that contains regular expressions as the key value. I tried to use the following syntax:
var kv = {
/key/g : "value"
};
But it fails according JavaScript lint:
SyntaxError: invalid property id
How can I fix it?
Update
Background: The reason why I want to do this is to implement a workaround that fixes wrong unicode in a HTTP API result. I know this is very hackish, but since I have no control over the API server code I think this is the best I can do.
Currently I implemented the mapping by having a keys array and a values array:
function fixUnicode(text) {
var result = text;
var keys = [];
var values = [];
keys.push(/é/g); values.push("é");
keys.push(/è/g); values.push("è");
keys.push(/ê/g); values.push("ê");
keys.push(/ë/g); values.push("ë");
keys.push(/Ã /g); values.push("à");
keys.push(/ä/g); values.push("ä");
keys.push(/â/g); values.push("â");
keys.push(/ù/g); values.push("ù");
keys.push(/û/g); values.push("û");
keys.push(/ü/g); values.push("ü");
keys.push(/ô/g); values.push("ô");
keys.push(/ö/g); values.push("ö");
keys.push(/î/g); values.push("î");
keys.push(/ï/g); values.push("ï");
keys.push(/ç/g); values.push("ç");
for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; ++i) {
result = result.replace(keys[i], values[i]);
}
return result;
}
But I want to implement to use a JavaScript object to map keys as values:
function fixUnicode(text) {
var result = text;
var keys = {
/é/g : "é",
/è/g : "è"
// etc...
};
for (var key in keys) {
result = result.replace(key, keys[key]);
}
return result;
}
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