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departmentnames

#Business department name generator

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This is built with my handy grammar based text generator. Check it out!
I made this as something which i might import into a bureaucracy based game at some point.

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grammar.main    = "the @simple";

grammar.simple = ['@e @x @d','@x @d','@s division', '@s @d', '@sd'];

grammar.e = ['Product','Service', 'Application', 'Business', 'Retail', 'Strategic'] 

grammar.x = ['Development', 'Design', 'Maintenance', 'Management', 'Contracting'];

grammar.s = ['Marketing', 'Finance', 'Legal', 'HR'];
grammar.sd = ['Secretariat'];
grammar.d = ['department']

var maxDepth = 100; // Maximum number of replacements before giving up.
var grammar = [];
var lib;

// Look up an element in the story segments table.
function seg(g, name, p1) {
    if     (typeof(g[p1]) == "undefined") return "@" + p1;
    else if(typeof(g[p1]) == "string")    return g[p1];
    else                                  return pick(g[p1]);
}

// Helper functions for array selection and indefinite article.
var pick = (arr) => arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)];
var article = (m, o) => ("aeiouAEIOU".indexOf(m[2]) == -1?"a ":"an ") + m[2];

// The heavy lifting!
function generate(txt, g=grammar) {
    var i = 0; //max depth of 100; avoid infinite loops!
    while(txt.indexOf("@")>=0&&i++<maxDepth) txt = txt.replace(/@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/g, seg.bind(this,g));
    if(i>=maxDepth) txt += "<p style='color:red;'>[Hit maximum iteration depth ("+maxDepth+")]</p>";
    txt=txt.replace(/\%\s[a-zA-Z]/g, article); 
    return txt;
}

function gen() {
    grammar = [];
    eval($("#grammar").val());
    txt = generate("@main");                                   //<---THE IMPORTANT BIT!
    $("#result").html("<div class='block'>"+txt+"</div>");
}

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