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The document discusses JavaScript's Math, Date, and String objects and their common methods. It provides examples of methods for each object type, including random number generation, date manipulation, character indexing and case conversion. Some key methods covered are Math.random(), Date.now(), String.length, String.toUpperCase(), and String.indexOf().

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The document discusses JavaScript's Math, Date, and String objects and their common methods. It provides examples of methods for each object type, including random number generation, date manipulation, character indexing and case conversion. Some key methods covered are Math.random(), Date.now(), String.length, String.toUpperCase(), and String.indexOf().

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CS114 JavaScript Math Object and its methods

1.0 JavaScript Math Object and its methods

• The math object provides a set of methods for manipulating


numbers and performing basic mathematic computations.

• This includes methods for random number generation, exponential


functions and comparison functions.

• Some common methods are found in the table below.

2.0 A sample program

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3.0 JavaScript Date Object and its methods

• The Date object consists of several methods that will allow you to
determine the current time and date and perform calculations
between dates or times.

• You must create a date object with the keyword new before you
can manipulate date object.

• To create a Date object :

nameOfDateObject = new Date( );

• Example

today = new Date( );

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4.0 JavaScript String Object and its methods

• A string consists of a sequence of characters.

• JavaScript has a list of methods that help manipulate a given


string.

• The general syntax is

o stringName.property

o stringName.methodName(parameters)

where stringName can be a string variable or constant

Method Description

length The length property of the string object


returns the number of characters in a string.

Ex: “Hello JavaScript”.length returns 16

bold( ) Emphasizes the text to be displayed in bold.


This method is equivalent to the HTML <B>…</B> tag.

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italics( ) Emphasizes the text to be displayed in


italics. This method is equivalent to the HTML <I>…</I> tag.

strike( ) Causes the text to be displayed as struck


out text. This method is equivalent to the HTML <Strike>
tag.

fontcolor( ) Causes the string to be displayed as the


specified colour.
Ex: var text=“Good Morning”
document.write(text.fontcolor(“red”));

fontsize( ) Changes the size of the text.


Ex: document.write (text.fontsize(3));

toLowerCase( ) This method converts the given given


string to lower case.
Ex: var text=“GOOD MORNING”;
document.write(text.toLowerCase( ) );

toUpperCase( ) This method converts the given string to


upper case.

Ex: var text=“good morning”;

document.write(text.toUpperCase( ) );

charAt( ) Returns the character at the specified


index. haracters in a string are indexed from the left to
right. Returns nothing if the specified position is greater
than the length of the string.
Ex : var text=“I Like JavaScript”;
document.write(text.charAt(0));
// I
document.write(text.charAt(1)); //

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document.write(text.charAt(2)); //

substring(beginIndex,endIndex) Returns a substring of


the string specified by the beginIndex and endIndex.
Ex : text=“Informatics Computer School”;

document.write(text.substring(12,19));
// will display Computer

document.write(text.substring(21,26));
// will display School

indexOf(text,Index ) Returns the position number in


a string of the first character in the text argument. The Index
is an optional value that represents the position from
which to begin the search.

Ex: var text="Good Morning";

document.write(text.indexOf("M"));
// will display 5

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5.0 Bibliography

• JavaScript (Introductory) By Dan Gosselin

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