@basd/formatter

Formatter

A comprehensive text formatting and manipulation library written in JS. It aims to offer a simple and efficient way to format, normalize, tokenize, and filter text in various scenarios.

Installation

Install the package with:

npm install @basd/formatter

Usage

First, import the Formatter library.

import Formatter from '@basd/formatter'

or

const Formatter = require('@basd/formatter')

Or import TextFormatter and StopWordFilter classes like this:

const { TextFormatter, StopWordFilter } = require('@basd/formatter')

TextFormatter

const formatter = new TextFormatter()

console.log(formatter.normalizeSearchQuery('hello & world | earth'))
// Output: 'HELLO AND WORLD OR EARTH'

console.log(formatter.toUpperCase('hello world'))
// Output: 'HELLO WORLD'

console.log(formatter.toLowerCase('HELLO WORLD'))
// Output: 'hello world'

console.log(formatter.stripPunctuation('hello, world!'))
// Output: 'hello world'

const tokens = formatter.tokenize('This is an example.')
console.log(tokens)
// Output: ['this', 'is', 'an', 'example']

StopWordFilter

const stopWordFilter = new StopWordFilter(['a', 'an', 'the'])
console.log(stopWordFilter.filter(['this', 'is', 'a', 'test']))
// Output: ['this', 'is', 'test']

Documentation

• API Reference

TextFormatter

Methods

• normalizeSearchQuery(text: string): string
• stripPunctuation(text: string): string
• toUpperCase(text: string): string
• toLowerCase(text: string): string
• splitWords(text: string): Array<string>
• filterStopWords(words: Array<string>): Array<string>
• normalize(text: string, upper: boolean = false): string
• tokenize(text: string, filterStopWords: boolean = true): Array<string>
• setStopWords(stopWords: Array<string>): Set a new list of stop words.

StopWordFilter

Methods

• filter(words: Array<string>): Array<string>
• setStopWords(stopWords: Array<string>): Set a new list of stop words.

Static Methods

• get defaultStopWords(): Array<string>: Get the default list of stop words.
• get extendedStopWords(): Array<string>: Get an extended list of stop words. (extendedStopWords must be imported or defined.)

Tests

In order to run the test suite, simply clone the repository and install its dependencies:

git clone https://gitlab.com/frenware/utils/formatter.git
cd formatter
npm install

To run the tests:

npm test

Contributing

Thank you! Please see our contributing guidelines for details.

Donations

If you find this project useful and want to help support further development, please send us some coin. We greatly appreciate any and all contributions. Thank you!

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License

@basd/formatter is MIT licensed.