remove-words

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remove-words

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A node module that returns an array of all words in a string that are not a pronoun or generic words.

This can be used for storing just the keywords of a string in a database and not wasting space with words like 'and', 'to', 'the'... which are unlikely to be searched for in a query.

Installation

yarn add remove-words --save

Example

var removeWords =  require('remove-words');
 
removeWords("Today is sunny so we are going to go swimming at the seaside");
// Will return: ['today', 'sunny', 'swimming', 'seaside']
 
 

Removing duplicates

By default all duplicates will be removed. The second (optional) parameter is a boolean, specifiying weather of not to remove duplicates.

removeWords("Hello world hello hello", true); // ["hello", "world"]
removeWords("Hello world hello hello", false); // ["hello", "world", "hello", "hello"]

Using a custom word list

 
var names = ['jack', 'john', 'joe', 'james', 'jim']
removeWords("The winners are: Jack, John and Jim!!!", true, names)
// Will remove just all names

Features

  • Case insensitive
  • Handles special characters, URL's and other non standard strings
  • By default doesn't return any duplicates, but can be specified in 2nd parameter
  • Doesn't return blanks or special characters
  • Thoroughly unit tested
  • Words list is customisable, optionally pass in your own array as the third parameter

Tests

Run npm test

Building

  • gulp build - Lints and compiles CoffeeScript
  • gulp test - Runs tests
  • gulp - Watches for changes, cleans working directory, builds and tests

Contributing

If you find an issue:

  • Feel free to raise it as an issue here (give as much detail about your scenario as possible) and I'll look into it
  • Or better yet submit a pull request with your feature or fix. Ensure all tests still pass and give a short sentence of why it should be merged in the PR description.

Development

  • Clone the repo and cd into it. git clone https://github.com/Lissy93/remove-words.git && cd $(basename $_ .git)
  • Install dev dependencies yarn install --production=false
  • Build and/or watch npm run build/ npm run watch
  • Make changes, then run npm test

License

MIT © Alicia Sykes 2017. View licence.

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npm i remove-words

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0.9.0

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