ctgov-ocr-formatter

CTGOV Data Formatter

Ever had issues with displaying the parsed data from CTGOV on web/mobile pages? And wanted to display the data in a user friendly format? Then ctgov-ocr-formatter is what you are looking for!

Description

Simple string converter that removes unnecessary carriage returns and line breaks from the clinical trials parsed data. It returns a clean displayable string for your web and mobile pages. Uses regular expression and string functions to format the data.

Before formatting

After formatting

Installation

Formatter is available in npm. Just npm i ctgov-ocr-formatter will download the packages and its dependencies.

Usage

After installing the library, you can now easily clean up the data formatting

Typescript:

import { Formatter } from "ctgov-ocr-formatter";
let iFormatter = new Formatter();
let detailedEligibility = result['clinical_study']['eligibility'][0].criteria[0].textblock[0];

Javascript:

var formatter = require('ctgov-ocr-formatter');
var iformat = new formatter();
var detailedEligibility = result['clinical_study']['eligibility'][0].criteria[0].textblock[0].toLocaleString();
var formattedDetailedEligibility = iFormatter.formatData(detailedEligibility);

Note : result['clinical_study']['eligibility'][0].criteria[0].textblock[0] is the xml parsed object from clinical trials. For, more detailed coding please check the test scripts available under __test__ folder

Development

You need latest version of Node and npm.

npm scripts

• npm run lint: Run [ESLint] (including [Prettier]).
• npm run format: Run [ESLint] (including [Prettier]).
• npm run jest: Run unit tests. During development, npm run jest -- --watch is nice.
• npm test: Check that everything works.