tokenize-whitespace

Tokenize a string into words and whitespace tokens

Installation

$ npm install --save tokenize-whitespace

Usage

var tokenizeWhiteSpace = require('tokenize-whitespace');
 
var str = '\tString \nwith \nwhitespace \rchars';
 
// Get an Array of tokens
tokenizeWhitespace(str);

Output:

[ { text: '\t',         type: 'HORIZONTALTAB',  length: 1  },
  { text: 'String',     type: 'WORD',           length: 6  },
  { text: ' ',          type: 'SPACE',          length: 1  },
  { text: '\n',         type: 'LINEFEED',       length: 1  },
  { text: 'with',       type: 'WORD',           length: 4  },
  { text: ' ',          type: 'SPACE',          length: 1  },
  { text: '\n',         type: 'LINEFEED',       length: 1  },
  { text: 'whitespace', type: 'WORD',           length: 10 },
  { text: ' ',          type: 'SPACE',          length: 1  },
  { text: '\r',         type: 'CARRIAGERETURN', length: 1  },
  { text: 'chars',      type: 'WORD',           length: 5  } 
]

Relevant Whitespace

Currently, this module only tokenizes the following whitespace characters:

• HORIZONTALTAB => '\t'
• LINEFEED => '\n'
• VERTICALTAB => '\v'
• FORMFEED => '\f'
• CARRIAGERETURN => '\r'
• SPACE => ' '

Please open an issue or submit a pull request if you would like to see more whitespace character support.

License

MIT @ Michael Wuergler