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The fastest way to build a replacing function based on regexps.

See replacer in https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural/blob/master/lib/natural/util/utils.js

This checks only the building of replacing functions, not its actual use.

Preparation code

<script>
var table = {"㋀":"1月","㋁":"2月","㋂":"3月","㋃":"4月","㋄":"5月","㋅":"6月","㋆":"7月","㋇":"8月","㋈":"9月","㋉":"10月","㋊":"11月","㋋":"12月","㏠":"1日","㏡":"2日","㏢":"3日","㏣":"4日","㏤":"5日","㏥":"6日","㏦":"7日","㏧":"8日","㏨":"9日","㏩":"10日","㏪":"11日","㏫":"12日","㏬":"13日","㏭":"14日","㏮":"15日","㏯":"16日","㏰":"17日","㏱":"18日","㏲":"19日","㏳":"20日","㏴":"21日","㏵":"22日","㏶":"23日","㏷":"24日","㏸":"25日","㏹":"26日","㏺":"27日","㏻":"28日","㏼":"29日","㏽":"30日","㏾":"31日","㍘":"0点","㍙":"1点","㍚":"2点","㍛":"3点","㍜":"4点","㍝":"5点","㍞":"6点","㍟":"7点","㍠":"8点","㍡":"9点","㍢":"10点","㍣":"11点","㍤":"12点","㍥":"13点","㍦":"14点","㍧":"15点","㍨":"16点","㍩":"17点","㍪":"18点","㍫":"19点","㍬":"20点","㍭":"21点","㍮":"22点","㍯":"23点","㍰":"24点","㍻":"平成","㍼":"昭和","㍽":"大正","㍾":"明治","㍿":"株式会社","㌀":"アパート","㌁":"アルファ","㌂":"アンペア","㌃":"アール","㌄":"イニング","㌅":"インチ","㌆":"ウオン","㌇":"エスクード","㌈":"エーカー","㌉":"オンス","㌊":"オーム","㌋":"カイリ","㌌":"カラット","㌍":"カロリー","㌎":"ガロン","㌏":"ガンマ","㌐":"ギガ","㌑":"ギニー","㌒":"キュリー","㌓":"ギルダー","㌔":"キロ","㌕":"キログラム","㌖":"キロメートル","㌗":"キロワット","㌘":"グラム","㌙":"グラムトン","㌚":"クルゼイロ","㌛":"クローネ","㌜":"ケース","㌝":"コルナ","㌞":"コーポ","㌟":"サイクル","㌠":"サンチーム","㌡":"シリング","㌢":"センチ","㌣":"セント","㌤":"ダース","㌥":"デシ","㌦":"ドル","㌧":"トン","㌨":"ナノ","㌩":"ノット","㌪":"ハイツ","㌫":"パーセント","㌬":"パーツ","㌭":"バーレル","㌮":"ピアストル","㌯":"ピクル","㌰":"ピコ","㌱":"ビル","㌲":"ファラッド","㌳":"フィート","㌴":"ブッシェル","㌵":"フラン","㌶":"ヘクタール","㌷":"ペソ","㌸":"ペニヒ","㌹":"ヘルツ","㌺":"ペンス","㌻":"ページ","㌼":"ベータ","㌽":"ポイント","㌾":"ボルト","㌿":"ホン","㍀":"ポンド","㍁":"ホール","㍂":"ホーン","㍃":"マイクロ","㍄":"マイル","㍅":"マッハ","㍆":"マルク","㍇":"マンション","㍈":"ミクロン","㍉":"ミリ","㍊":"ミリバール","㍋":"メガ","㍌":"メガトン","㍍":"メートル","㍎":"ヤード","㍏":"ヤール","㍐":"ユアン","㍑":"リットル","㍒":"リラ","㍓":"ルピー","㍔":"ルーブル","㍕":"レム","㍖":"レントゲン","㍗":"ワット"};

function replacer1(translationTable) {
  /**
   * An array of translationTable keys.
   * @type {Array.<string>}
   */
  var pattern = [];

  /**
   * The regular expression doing the replacement job.
   * @type {RegExp}
   */
  var regExp;

  /**
   * Used to iterate over translationTable.
   * @type {string}
   */
  var key;

  for (key in translationTable) {
    // Escaping regexp special chars.
    key = ('' + key).replace(/([-()\[\]{}+?*.$\^|,:#<!\\])/g, '\\$1').
      replace(/\x08/g, '\\x08');
    pattern.push(key);
  }

  regExp = new RegExp(pattern.join('|'), 'g');

  /**
   * @param {string} str Input string.
   * @return {string} The string replaced.
   */
  return function(str) {
    return str.replace(regExp, function(str) {
      return translationTable[str];
    });
  };
}

function replacer2(translationTable) {
  /**
   * The regular expression doing the replacement job.
   * @type {RegExp}
   */
  var regExp;

  /**
   * An array containing the keys of the replacement table.
   * @type {Array.<string>}
   */
  var keys = Object.keys(translationTable);

  keys = keys.map(function(key) {
    return ('' + key).replace(/([-()\[\]{}+?*.$\^|,:#<!\\])/g, '\\$1').
      replace(/\x08/g, '\\x08');
  });

  regExp = new RegExp(keys.join('|'), 'g');

  /**
   * @param {string} str Input string.
   * @return {string} The string replaced.
   */
  return function(str) {
    return str.replace(regExp, function(str) {
      return translationTable[str];
    });
  };
}

function replacer3(translationTable) {
  /**
   * The regular expression doing the replacement job.
   * @type {RegExp}
   */
  var regExp;

  /**
   * An array containing the keys of the replacement table.
   * @type {Array.<string>}
   */
  var keys = Object.keys(translationTable);

  for (var i = 0, len = keys.length; i < len; i++) {
    keys[i] = ('' + keys[i]).replace(/([-()\[\]{}+?*.$\^|,:#<!\\])/g, '\\$1').
      replace(/\x08/g, '\\x08');
  }

  regExp = new RegExp(keys.join('|'), 'g');

  /**
   * @param {string} str Input string.
   * @return {string} The string replaced.
   */
  return function(str) {
    return str.replace(regExp, function(str) {
      return translationTable[str];
    });
  };
}
</script>

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replacer1(table);

replacer2(table);

replacer3(table);

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Revisions

You can edit these tests or add even more tests to this page by appending /edit to the URL. Here’s a list of current revisions for this page:

• Revision 1: published on 21st September 2012
• Revision 2: published on 6th February 2013

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