PigLatin

Famous PigLatin translator in JS.

API

PigLatin

This is a JS class which should be initialized by providing a string, if no initial argument or not a valid string is provded, an Error will be thrown.

let translator = new PigLatin('michelada');

#phrase

It return current instance string.

translator.phrase();
> 'michelada'

#reset

It resets the current instance string

translator.reset('colima');

#translate

It transforms the current string according to PigLatin's set of rules.

translator.reset('michelada fria');
translator.phrase();
> 'michelada fria'
translator.translate();
> 'icheladamay iafray'

Implementation

The basic translation/classification rules of translations has been implemented with the aid of regular expressions. For example:

const STARTS_WITH_VOWEL = /^[aeiou]/i;
const STARTS_WITH_CONSONANT = /^[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]{1}/i
const STARTS_WITH_TWO_CONSONANTS = /^[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]{2}/i;
const ENDS_WITH_VOWEL = /[aeiou]$/i;
const ENDS_WITH_CONSONANT = /[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]$/i;
const ENDS_WITH_Y = /y$/i;
const CAPTURE_LEADING_CONSONANTS = /^([b-df-hj-np-tv-z]{1,})([a-zA-Z]*)/i;
const PHRASE = /\w+/ig;

Also a few word transformations has been done by using regex captures and replacing, particular string transformations has been implemented using core String methods like slice or replace.

Test

Run npm i; npm test