Run results for: Trimming leading/trailing characterssss

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.6

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Index Version (Jason Larke)	92271.5 Ops/sec
Regex Version (leaf)	43476.4 Ops/sec
Boolean Filter Version (mbaer3000)	30605.3 Ops/sec
Spread Version (Robin F.)	1067.1 Ops/sec
Substring Version (Pho3niX83)	36364.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var TestString = '+'.repeat(200) + '='.repeat(20000) + '+'.repeat(200);

var regexTrim = function(str, ch) {
    if (ch === ']') ch = '\\]';
    else if (ch === '^') ch = '\\^';
    else if (ch === '\\') ch = '\\\\';
    return str.replace(new RegExp('^[' + ch + ']+|[' + ch + ']+$', 'g'), '');
};

function indexTrim(str, ch) {
    var start = 0, 
        end = str.length;

    while(start < end && ch.includes(str[start]))
        ++start;

    while(end > start && ch.includes(str[end - 1]))
        --end;

    return (start > 0 || end < str.length) ? str.substring(start, end) : str;
}

function booleanTrim(str, ch) {
    return str.split(ch).filter(Boolean).join(ch);
}

function spreadTrim(str, ch) {
    const first = [...str].findIndex(char => char !== ch);
    const last = [...str].reverse().findIndex(char => char !== ch);
    return str.substring(first, str.length - last);
}

function substringTrim(str, ch) {
    while(str.charAt(0)==ch) {
        str = str.substring(1);
    }

    while(str.charAt(str.length-1)==ch) {
        str = str.substring(0,str.length-1);
    }

    return str;
}

Tests:

Index Version (Jason Larke)
indexTrim(TestString, '+');
Regex Version (leaf)
regexTrim(TestString, '+')
Boolean Filter Version (mbaer3000)
booleanTrim(TestString, '+')
Spread Version (Robin F.)
spreadTrim(TestString, '+')
Substring Version (Pho3niX83)
substringTrim(TestString, '+')

Run results for: Trimming leading/trailing characterssss

Index Version (Jason Larke)

Regex Version (leaf)

Boolean Filter Version (mbaer3000)

Spread Version (Robin F.)

Substring Version (Pho3niX83)