Merge pull request #524 from chilicoder/master

[api] add alphanumeric symbol * to `helpers.replaceSymbols`

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/helpers.js b/lib/helpers.js
index 8f3b5c71..388ff573 100644
--- a/lib/helpers.js
+++ b/lib/helpers.js
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ var Helpers = function (faker) {
               str += faker.random.number(9);
           } else if (string.charAt(i) == "?") {
               str += faker.random.arrayElement(alpha);
+          } else if (string.charAt(i) == "*") {
+            str += faker.random.boolean() ? faker.random.arrayElement(alpha) : faker.random.number(9);
           } else {
               str += string.charAt(i);
           }
diff --git a/test/helpers.unit.js b/test/helpers.unit.js
index b440f33e..b9d559dd 100644
--- a/test/helpers.unit.js
+++ b/test/helpers.unit.js
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ describe("helpers.js", function () {
         });
     });
 
+    describe("replaceSymbols()", function () {
+        context("when '*' passed", function () {
+            it("replaces it with alphanumeric", function(){
+                var num = faker.helpers.replaceSymbols('*AB');
+                assert.ok(num.match(/\wAB/));
+            });
+        });
+    });
+
     describe("shuffle()", function () {
         it("the output is the same length as the input", function () {
             sinon.spy(faker.random, 'number');