Note: At this point in time, I'm unable to word the question title better. If someone is able to put it accross better, please go right ahead!
What I have:
var array = ["authentication.$.order", "difference.$.user.$.otherinformation", ... , ...]
What I need:
["authentication", "authentication.$", "authentication.$.order",
"difference", "difference.$", "difference.$.user", "difference.$.user.$",
"difference.$.user.$.otherinformation"]
Basically, wherevever I see .$., I need to preserve it, then append everything before the occourrence of .$. along with everything before the occourrence of .$
Example:
difference.$.user.$.otherinformation should be parsed to contain:
difference
difference.$
difference.$.user
difference.$.user.$
difference.$.user.$.otherinformation
I'm strongly feeling that some sort of recursion is to be involved here, but have not progressed in that direction yet.
Below is my implementation for the same, but unfortunately, my when my substring matches the first occourrence of .$., it stops and does not proceed to further check for other occurrences of .$. in the same string.
How best can I take this to closure?
Current flawed implementation:
for(var i=0; i<array.length; i++){
// next, replace all array field references with $ as that is what autoform's pick() requires
// /\.\d+\./g,".$." ==> replace globally .[number]. with .$.
array[i] = array[i].replace(/\.\d+\./g,".$.");
if(array[i].substring(0, array[i].lastIndexOf('.$.'))){
console.log("Substring without .$. " + array[i].substring(0, array[i].indexOf('.$.')));
console.log("Substring with .$ " + array[i].substring(0, array[i].indexOf('.$.')).concat(".$"));
array.push(array[i].substring(0, array[i].indexOf('.$.')).concat(".$"));
array.push(array[i].substring(0, array[i].indexOf('.$.')));
}
}
// finally remove any duplicates if any
array = _.uniq(array);