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Awais Chishti
Awais Chishti

Reputation: 395

Unexpected behavior of bound function

Tried to create a function mapping numeric characters (i.e. '0' to '9') to true and other characters to false:

const isNumeric = String.prototype.includes.bind('0123456789');

isNumeric('1') and isNumeric('0') returned true. Expected ['1', '0'].every(isNumeric) to be true too but it turned out to be false.

Something I'm missing?

This was on node v10.16.3

Upvotes: 1

Views: 50

Answers (1)

adiga
adiga

Reputation: 35263

includes has a second parameter called position which is the position within the string at which to begin searching. every, like every other array prototype methods, provides the index as the second argument to the callback provided. So, the code ends up being something like this:

const exists = ['1', '0'].every((n, i) => isNumeric(n, i))

// Which translates to
// Look for "1" starting from index 0. It is found
// Look for "0" starting from index 1. Fails because "0" is at index 0
 const exists = ['1', '0'].every((n, i) => '0123456789'.includes(n, i))

Here's a snippet:

const isNumeric = String.prototype.includes.bind('0123456789'),
      numbers = Array.from('149563278'); // array of numbers in random order

console.log( numbers.every(isNumeric) ) // false

console.log( numbers.every(n => isNumeric(n)) ) // true

Upvotes: 3

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