Array search strategy

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The task is the following - in input there are some English letters which I want to replace by values located in jap and put in outputArr according to dictionary in eng (same position).

But I really don't understand how to make such loop / if to make it work.

<script>
var input = "agde";
var inputArr = input.split('');
var outputArr = [];
var eng= ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g"];
var jap = ["あ","び","を","ご","で","え","よ"];
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4 Answers

First combine eng and jap into a lookup table (a plain object):

var eng = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g"];
var jap = ["あ","び","を","ご","で","え","よ"];
var translation = Object.fromEntries(eng.map((letter, i) => [letter, jap[i]]));


// Now translate an example input
var input = "agde";
var output = Array.from(input, letter => translation[letter]).join("");
console.log(output);

user_54598390

You can map the array and use the indexOf method from Arrays to find the index of English alphabet and use it against the jap array

var input = "agde";
var eng= ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g"];
var jap = ["あ","び","を","ご","で","え","よ"];

const getJapOut = ([...input]) => [...input].map(value => jap[eng.indexOf(value)])

console.log(getJapOut(input));

user_16321890

You can make use of indexOf function to get the corresponding index, access it via [] and map the result into your outputArr:

var eng = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"];
var jap = ["あ", "び", "を", "ご", "で", "え", "よ"];

var input = "agde";
var inputArr = input.split("");

const outputArr = inputArr.map((char) => jap[eng.indexOf(char)]);
console.log(outputArr);

user_88454800

Using findIndex() we can get the corresponding Japanese character and use map() to create a new array with the new characters.

var input = "agde";
var inputArr = input.split("");
var outputArr = [];
var eng = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"];
var jap = ["あ", "び", "を", "ご", "で", "え", "よ"];

let output = inputArr.map((char) => {
  const index = eng.findIndex((letter) => letter === char);
  return jap[index];
});
console.log(output);

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