Funny seeing this, because I was at my local Borders earlier and decided to give that Beautiful Code book a shot. I've seen it on the shelf for quite a while, but those books don't tend to turn my crank, so to speak, so I had never before really considered it. I only read the first and the third essay, but I must say, wow! The third essay, for instance, takes a simple 12 line implementation of quicksort in C (which i…
Oh and to post some actual code...
Definitely not _the_ most beautiful code I've written, but I still enjoy this little function for some reason. It's just pretty to me.
function addparams(query) {
return query.replace(/(&?)([^&=]+)=([^&]*)/g, function(m, amper, key, id) {
var val = document.getElementById(id).value;
return val.length > 0 ? amper + key + "=" + escape(val) : '';
});
}
$.ajax({
url: "/path/to/page",
data: addparams("fn=first&ln=last")
});
/path/to/page?fn=defaultfirst&ln=defaultlast