NODE and rewriting - Replace world alternatively in a text?

Question

Good morning,

I would like to rewrite a text and replace words that are often repeated.

• Is it possible to replace a word by another word chosen at random from a list? ("women" by "girl or wife or female")

• Is it possible to replace a word but not every time? For example every 3 occurrences?

For the moment i use

srt = srt.replace(/women/gi, 'girl');

thanks

Answer 1

This code should achieve what you are trying to accomplish.

My apologies. I thought this was Python by glancing at the code. Here is a Javascript version of the previous Python code.

For more info on using "indexOf" vs "includes" check out this article

JavaScript

const word_to_replace = "amazing";
const list_of_words = ["randWord1", "randWord2", "randWord3", "randWord4", "randWord5", "randWord6"];
let blob = "This is an amazing text blob where the word amazing is replaced by a random word from list_of_words. Isn't that amazing!";
let random_word;
let randint;

while (blob.indexOf(word_to_replace) !== -1) {
    randint = Math.floor(Math.random() * list_of_words.length);
    random_word = list_of_words[randint];
    blob = blob.replace(word_to_replace, random_word);
}

Python

from random import randint


word_to_replace = "amazing"

list_of_words = ["randWord1", "randWord2",
                 "randWord3", "randWord4", "randWord5", "randWord6"]


blob = "This is an amazing text blob where the word amazing is replaced by a random word from list_of_words. Isn't that amazing!"

# Check if the word_to_replace is in the given blob.
# If there is an occurrence then loop again
# Keep looping until there aren't any more occurrences
while word_to_replace in blob:
    # Get a random word from the list called list_of_words
    random_word = list_of_words[randint(0, len(list_of_words)-1)]
    # Replace only one occurrence of word_to_replace (amazing).
    blob = blob.replace(word_to_replace, random_word, 1)

# Print the result
print(blob)

To do X amount of occurrences at a time change blob.replace(word_to_replace, random_word, 1) to blob.replace(word_to_replace, random_word, 3). Note the number at the end. It means "how many occurrences at a time would you like to replace?"

Answer 2

thanks to MsonC. i have converted python to JS

const word_to_replace = "amazing"

const list_of_words = ["randWord1", "randWord2", "randWord3", "randWord4", "randWord5", "randWord6"]


var blob = "This is an amazing text blob where the word amazing is replaced by a random word from list_of_words. Isn't that amazing!"

// Check if the word_to_replace is in the given blob./ If there is an occurrence then loop again // Keep looping until there aren't any more occurrences while (blob.includes(word_to_replace)) {
    // Get a random word from the list called list_of_words
    var random_word = list_of_words[Math.floor(Math.random() * (list_of_words.length))]
    // Replace only one occurrence of word_to_replace (amazing).
    blob = blob.replace(word_to_replace, random_word, 1) } // Print the result console.log(blob)