An elegant way to surround a string in Javascript -

are there no better ways surround string html tag (or brackets, or quotation marks, or whitespace) mundane concatenation?

inbefore “stupid question”

very similar problems notable enough deserve own api functions:

• range.surroundcontents() (doing that, selections)
• string methods: trim() (doing opposite white spaces), split/join(), anchor/link()
• deprecated string methods: big(), blink(), bold(), fixed(), fontcolor(), fontsize(), italics(), small(), strike(), sub/sup()

edit: such questions not stupid creators of javascript.

who more stupid: creators of javascript or you?

use cases

i wish write like:

1. div.innerhtml = rawstr.split("\n\n").join("", "<p>", "</p>");
2. newstr = oldstr.split(/\s+“|”\s+/g).join(" ", "\"", "\"");
3. var str = "joan – despite curly hair – loved.";
return str.split(/\s+–/s+/g).join(" ", "(", ")");
4. var str = "joan (despite curly hair) loved.";
return str.split(/\s+\(|\)/s+/g).join(" – "); ← oh, wait... can one.

...instead of:

1. div.innerhtml = rawstr.split("\n\n").map(str => "<p>" + str + "</p>")).join("");
2. newstr = oldstr.split(/\s+“|”\s+/g).map(str => "\"" + str + "\"")).join(" ");
3. a)

   var str = "joan – despite curly hair – loved.";
   var p = str.split(/\s+–/s+/g);
   return p[0] + " " + "(" + p[1] + ")" + " " + p[2];

   b)

   var str = "joan – despite curly hair – loved.";
   var p = str.split(/\s+–/s+/g);
   p[1] = "(" + p[1] + ")";
   return p.join(" ");

4. –

when can this, life complete.

this easier es6 template literals:

div.innerhtml = rawstr.split("\n\n").map(str => `<p>${str}</p>`)).join(""); newstr = oldstr.split(/\s+“|”\s+/g).map(str => `"${str}"`)).join(" "); `${p[0]} (${p[1]}) ${p[2]}`