Add method to string class

You can extend the String prototype;

String.prototype.distance = function (char) {
var index = this.indexOf(char);


if (index === -1) {
alert(char + " does not appear in " + this);
} else {
alert(char + " is " + (this.length - index) + " characters from the end of the string!");
}
};

... and use it like this;

"Hello".distance("H");

See a JSFiddle here.

String.prototype.distance = function( arg ) {
// code
};

You could do this:

String.prototype.distance = function (){
//your code
}

Using prototype to add you own function to string is called a prototype I created small JavaScript code that can select elements and change its innerHTML

var dom; //you can replce this to be $ just like jQuery
dom = function(elm) {
if(typeof elm === "object") {
// already done example
//typeof document.getElementById('id') will be object
return [elm];
} else {
return document.querySelectorAll(elm);
}
} // Returns elements by all css selector eg
// .class #id id p id > p id ~ p in short any css selectors
Object.prototype.text = function(txt) {  //object prototype as NodeList returned would be object or maybe displayed as [Object NodeList]
var i = 0; //loop through the elements
for(i; i < this.length; i++) {
this[i].innerHTML = txt;
}
// in this function this refers to object that this function is passed on
};
dom('.classh').text('Changed for elements with classh');
dom('#heading').text('Changed for elements with id heading'); //examples

Minimal example:

No ones mentioned valueOf.

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String.prototype.
OPERATES_ON_COPY_OF_STRING = function (
ARGUMENT
){


//:Get primitive copy of string:
var str = this.valueOf();


//:Append Characters To End:
str = str + ARGUMENT;


//:Return modified copy:
return( str );
};


var a = "[Whatever]";
var b = a.OPERATES_ON_COPY_OF_STRING("[Hi]");
console.log( a ); //: [Whatever]
console.log( b ); //: [Whatever][Hi]

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From my research into it, there is no way to edit the string in place.

Even if you use a string object instead of a string primitive.

Below does NOT work and get's really weird results in the debugger.

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String.prototype.
EDIT_IN_PLACE_DOES_NOT_WORK = function (
ARGUMENT
){


//:Get string object:
var str = this;


//:Append Characters To End:
var LN = str.length;
for( var i = 0; i < ARGUMENT.length; i++){
str[LN+i] = ARGUMENT[ i ];
};


};


var c = new String( "[Hello]" );
console.log( c );
c.EDIT_IN_PLACE_DOES_NOT_WORK("[World]");
console.log( c );

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after years (and ES6) … we have a new option how to do this:

Object.defineProperty( String.prototype, 'distance', {
value: function ( param )
{
// your code …
return 'counting distance between ' + this + ' and ' + param;
}
} );


// ... and use it like this:
const result = "a".distance( "b" );
console.log(result);