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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/utils.coffee | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/utils.coffee b/lib/utils.coffee index 2efb4716..661f7e84 100644 --- a/lib/utils.coffee +++ b/lib/utils.coffee @@ -87,11 +87,17 @@ Utils = # Fallback: no URL return false + # Map a search query to its URL encoded form. The query may be either a string or an array of strings. + # E.g. "BBC Sport" -> "BBC+Sport". + createSearchQuery: (query) -> + query = query.split(/\s+/) if typeof(query) == "string" + query.map(encodeURIComponent).join "+" + # Creates a search URL from the given :query. createSearchUrl: (query) -> - # it would be better to pull the default search engine from chrome itself, - # but it is not clear if/how that is possible - Settings.get("searchUrl") + encodeURIComponent(query) + # It would be better to pull the default search engine from chrome itself. However, unfortunately chrome + # does not provide an API for doing so. + Settings.get("searchUrl") + @createSearchQuery query # Converts :string into a Google search if it's not already a URL. We don't bother with escaping characters # as Chrome will do that for us. @@ -109,6 +115,12 @@ Utils = # detects both literals and dynamically created strings isString: (obj) -> typeof obj == 'string' or obj instanceof String + # Transform "zjkjkabz" into "abjkz". + distinctCharacters: (str) -> + unique = "" + for char in str.split("").sort() + unique += char unless 0 <= unique.indexOf char + unique # Compares two version strings (e.g. "1.1" and "1.5") and returns # -1 if versionA is < versionB, 0 if they're equal, and 1 if versionA is > versionB. |