zulu-splitter

A library to split text in many different ways. When mining or harvesting data, it is very important to keep the text scope and group related data together. ZULU-SPLITTER offers you different methods to split text and group text according to their distibution, pattern and more. Here is a list by all the current methods to split text

• blocks
• lines
• block pattern
• line pattern

Installation

npm install zulu-splitter --save

Usage

var splitter = require('zulu-splitter');

Example 1: if you have text file in the following formate and you want to extract data according to their distribution

name: John Doe
email: [e-mail]
id:88454

name: John Roe
email: [e-mail]
id:88757

name: Richard Roe
email: [e-mail]
id:88757

using splitter.split('block', text) will split text according to their grouping and will return an array with the following

[ 'name: John Doe \n email: [e-mail] \n id:88454 ',
  ' name: John Roe \n email: [e-mail] \n id:88757 ',
  ' name: Richard Roe \n email: [e-mail] \n id: 88757' 
]

Example 2: if you are scanning file with unknown pattern, you may use linePatter or/and blockPattern to split the text. see the text below.

='USER ID:[e-mail]';
='PASSWARD:97270727';
?><?php
='USER ID:KANU';
='PASSWARD:VOILAAA';
?><?php
='USER ID:[e-mail]';
='PASSWARD:9123456789';
?><?php
='USER ID:[e-mail]';
='PASSWARD:901837074545';
?><?php

using 'patternInBlock' the splitter will find the pattern in the text and will split it. NOTE: patterns retun an object the has pattern(String) and nodes(Array)

{ pattern: '?><?php',
  nodes:[ 
    '=\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n=\'PASSWARD:97270727\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:KANU\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:VOILAAA\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:9123456789\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:901837074545\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:horsefish\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:9023239124\'; \n  ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]\'; \n =\'PASSWARD:redhotchiile\'; \n ',
    ' \n =\'USER ID:[e-mail]' 
    ] 
}

Methods

split()

• @param {String} [method] [method of split]
• @param {String} [text]
• @return {String[]} [results]

Methods of split

1. 'block': split text by multi new lines
2. 'line': split text by lines
3. 'whitespace': split text by white spaces
4. 'patternInBlock': split text by the repetitive pattern in text block
5. 'patternInLine': split text by the repetitive pattern in line

Release History

• 0.1.2 Initial release