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:

1npm install @basd/formatter

Usage

First, import the Formatter library.

1import Formatter from '@basd/formatter'

or

1const Formatter = require('@basd/formatter')

Or import TextFormatter and StopWordFilter classes like this:

1const { TextFormatter, StopWordFilter } = require('@basd/formatter')

TextFormatter

1const formatter = new TextFormatter()
2
3console.log(formatter.normalizeSearchQuery('hello & world | earth'))
4// Output: 'HELLO AND WORLD OR EARTH'
5
6console.log(formatter.toUpperCase('hello world'))
7// Output: 'HELLO WORLD'
8
9console.log(formatter.toLowerCase('HELLO WORLD'))
10// Output: 'hello world'
11
12console.log(formatter.stripPunctuation('hello, world!'))
13// Output: 'hello world'
14
15const tokens = formatter.tokenize('This is an example.')
16console.log(tokens)
17// Output: ['this', 'is', 'an', 'example']

StopWordFilter

1const stopWordFilter = new StopWordFilter(['a', 'an', 'the'])
2console.log(stopWordFilter.filter(['this', 'is', 'a', 'test']))
3// 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:

1git clone https://gitlab.com/frenware/utils/formatter.git
2cd formatter
3npm install

To run the tests:

1npm test

Contributing

Thank you! Please see our contributing guidelines for details.

Donations

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License

@basd/formatter is MIT licensed.