yoastseo-dep/src/languageProcessing/helpers/regex/createRegexFromDoubleArray.js

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/** @module stringProcessing/createRegexFromDoubleArray */

import addWordBoundary from "../word/addWordboundary.js";

/**
 * Creates a regex string of combined strings from the input array.
 *
 * @param {array} array The array containing the various parts of a transition word combination.
 *
 * @returns {array} The array with replaced entries.
 */
const wordCombinationToRegexString = function( array ) {
	array = array.map( function( word ) {
		return addWordBoundary( word );
	} );
	return array.join( "(.*?)" );
};

/**
 * Creates a regex of combined strings from the input array, containing arrays with two entries.
 *
 * @param {array} array The array containing arrays.
 *
 * @returns {RegExp} The regex created from the array.
 */
export default function( array ) {
	array = array.map( function( wordCombination ) {
		return wordCombinationToRegexString( wordCombination );
	} );

	const regexString = "(" + array.join( ")|(" ) + ")";

	return new RegExp( regexString, "ig" );
}