What are useful JavaScript methods that extends built-in objects? [closed]

Answer 1

String.format

String.prototype.format = function (values) {

    var regex = /\{([\w-]+)(?:\:([\w\.]*)(?:\((.*?)?\))?)?\}/g;

    var getValue = function (key) {
            if (values == null || typeof values === 'undefined') return null;

            var value = values[key];
            var type = typeof value;

            return type === 'string' || type === 'number' ? value : null;
        };

    return this.replace(regex, function (match) {
        //match will look like {sample-match}
        //key will be 'sample-match';
        var key = match.substr(1, match.length - 2);

        var value = getValue(key);

        return value != null ? value : match;
    });
};

Usage:

alert('Program: {key1} {key2}'.format({ 'key1' : 'Hello', 'key2' : 'World' })); //alerts Program: hello world