How to generate an array with function like this?
var name = ["monkey","monkey"..."horse","horse",..."dog","dog",..."cat","cat"...]
In my real case, I may have to repeat each name 100 times..
You can try this, specifying the words to be used, and the times to create the array you need.
var neededWords = ["Cat", "Hourse", "Dog"];
var finalArray = [];
var times = 10;
for (var i = 0; i < neededWords.length; i++) {
for (var n = 0; n < times; n++) {
finalArray.push(neededWords[i]);
}
}
console.log(finalArray);
Hope that helps!
If I understood correctly you need a function that takes as an argument a collection of items and returns a collection of those items repeated. From your problem statement, I assumed that the repetition has to be adjusted by you per collection item - correct me if I am wrong.
The function I wrote does just that; it takes an object literal {name1:frequency1,name2:frequency2..} which then iterates over the keys and pushes each one as many times as indicated by the associated frequency in the frequencyMap object.
function getRepeatedNames( frequencyMap ) {
var namesCollection = [];
Object.keys(frequencyMap).forEach(function(name,i,names){
var freq = frequencyMap[name];
freq = (isFinite(freq)) ? Math.abs(Math.floor(freq)) : 1;
for (var nameCounter=0; nameCounter<freq; nameCounter++) {
namesCollection.push(name);
}
});
return namesCollection;
}
Non-numeric values in the frequency map are ignored and replaced with 1.
Usage example: If we want to create an array with 5 cats and 3 dogs we need to invoke
getRepeatedNames({cat: 2, dog: 3}); // ["cat","cat","dog","dog","dog"]
for(var i = 0; i < 100; i++){ name.push('cat'); }