Left substring generator

JavaScript, String, Generator · Jul 24, 2022

Generates all left substrings of a given string.

Use String.prototype.length to terminate early if the string is empty.
Use a for...in loop and String.prototype.slice() to yield each substring of the given string, starting at the beginning.

const leftSubstrGenerator = function* (str) {
  if (!str.length) return;
  for (let i in str) yield str.slice(0, i + 1);
};

[...leftSubstrGenerator('hello')];
// [ 'h', 'he', 'hel', 'hell', 'hello' ]

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