30-seconds-of-code/snippets/mask.md

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title	tags	expertise	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Mask a value	string	intermediate	blog_images/rocky-beach-3.jpg	2018-01-01T13:02:59+02:00	2020-10-21T21:54:53+03:00

Replaces all but the last num of characters with the specified mask character.

• Use String.prototype.slice() to grab the portion of the characters that will remain unmasked.
• Use String.prototype.padStart() to fill the beginning of the string with the mask character up to the original length.
• If num is negative, the unmasked characters will be at the start of the string.
• Omit the second argument, num, to keep a default of 4 characters unmasked.
• Omit the third argument, mask, to use a default character of '*' for the mask.

const mask = (cc, num = 4, mask = '*') =>
  `${cc}`.slice(-num).padStart(`${cc}`.length, mask);

mask(1234567890); // '******7890'
mask(1234567890, 3); // '*******890'
mask(1234567890, -4, '$'); // '$$$$567890'