Hi

Am writing some code for which takes down new members information and creates them a username etc. It's all gone well apart from one bit of coding that i am having trouble with.

When a user types their chosen password in, say....STEVEN.....then on the summary page at the end i want it to show S****N as the password.

My code at the moment:

secpass = (password.charAt(0) + password.charAt(password.length-1));

Can anyone make any suggestions as to what to add to this so that the letters in the middle of the password are changed to '*'

It's easy to add * inbetween the first and last letter but just cant figure out how to make the amount of * the same as the amount of middle letters.

Any help appreciated.

n33712

Something like the below should do the trick:

function fuzzy(pwd) {
    if(!pwd || pwd.constructor == String || pwd.length < 3)
        return(pwd);
    var arr = pwd.split("");
    return(arr[0] + new Array(arr.length - 1).join('*') + arr[arr.length - 1]);
}
/* OR */
function fuzzy(pwd) {
    if(!pwd || pwd.constructor == String || pwd.length < 3)
        return(pwd);
    return(pwd.replace(/(.)(.*)(.)/, function(a, b, c, d) { 
           return(b+ c.replace(/./g, "*") + d); }));
}

Hi

Thanks very much for the help. While i am sure this works and i can just about understand what it's doing (beginner) is there a simpler way of doing this?

Cheers

p.s. is it possible using count?

The first method I posted is pretty simple, it just uses some basic array and string operations. Read the javascript String and Array object documentation and get back if you have any more queries.

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