> From: weepy
>
> Sick and tired of string manipulation in javascript ? I was....
>
> Try this nice little function :
>
> $s = function(s) {
> p = s.replace(/#{/g, "' + eval(").replace(/}/g, ") + '")
> p = "'" + p + "'"
> return eval(p)
> }
>
> OK it's not exactly bullet-proof, but it's the concept that
> counts here.
>
> So now you can do :
>
> a="Jonah"
> b=30
>
> $s("#{a} is #{b} years old")
> ==> "Jonah is 30 years old"
>
> Obviously any stray '#{' and '}' sequences will break it...
Sorry to be a party pooper, but what happens if you call $s from inside a
function, using replacement variables that are local to that function? How
will the "eval" see those variables?
-Mike
