我对这个问题很感兴趣,并决定借此机会了解更多关于生成器的信息。注意:使用 ES6 语法,因此不一定兼容所有平台。
相对于已经采用的其他方法,我不一定会推荐此方法,但它可能是一个很好的未来参考。
/**
* Invoke `callback` with every possible combination of `elements` up to length of `length`, until `callback` returns `true`
* @param elements an array of elements to be passed to `callback`
* @param length the maximum number of elements to pass to `callback`
* @param callback a function taking an array of elements, that returns a boolean
* @returns the first combination of elements for which `callback(combination)` returns `true`. Returns undefined if no combination up to the specified `length` returns `true`.
*/
const combineAndCall = (elements = [], length = 0, callback) => {
const it = permuteIterator(elements, length);
for (const el of it) {
if (callback(el)) {
return el;
}
}
};
/**
* Returns a generator that returns permutations, with repeated elements, of an array. The maximum length of each permutation is `len`
* @param arr the array to iterate. The first iteration will always be the empty array.
*
* Example:
* const it = permuteIterator([1,2,3], 2);
* it.next().value; // []
* it.next().value; // [1]
* it.next().value; // [2]
* it.next().value; // [3]
* it.next().value; // [1,1]
* it.next().value; // [1,2]
* it.next().value; // [1,3]
* it.next().value; // [2,1]
* it.next().value; // [2,2]
* ...
* it.next().value; // [3,3]
*
* @len the maximum length of each permutation
* @returns a generator that iterates the array
*/
function *permuteIterator(arr, len) {
let current = [];
function *helper(current, arr, len) {
if (current.length >= len) {
yield current;
} else {
for (const el of arr) {
yield* helper([...current, el], arr, len);
}
}
}
for (let i = 0; i <= len; i++) {
yield* helper([], arr, i);
}
}
/**
* Validates a password
* @param elements an array of strings (usually single characters) to combine into a a single string, and compare against the password
* @returns true if the string resulting from `elements.join("")` exactly equals the real password, false otherwise
*/
const passwordValidator = (elements) => {
const guess = elements.join("");
//console.log("validating:", guess);
return guess === "abc";
};
const alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
//const alphabet = "abc";
const elements = alphabet.split("");
const guessedPassword = combineAndCall(elements, 3, passwordValidator);
if (guessedPassword) {
console.log(`You know the secret password '${guessedPassword.join("")}'. Welcome.`);
} else {
console.log("You don't know the secret password. Rejected.");
}