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abbrev
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Package description
The abbrev npm package is used to create a list of unique abbreviations for a given set of strings. It is particularly useful when you need to generate a minimal set of distinct abbreviations for a list of words, ensuring that each word's abbreviation is unambiguous.
Generating abbreviations
This feature allows you to generate an object where the keys are all possible unique abbreviations and the values are the full strings that they map to. In the code sample, abbreviations for 'apple', 'ape', and 'april' are generated, resulting in an object with keys like 'a', 'ap', 'app', etc., each pointing to their respective full words.
const abbrev = require('abbrev');
const abbreviations = abbrev('apple', 'ape', 'april');
console.log(abbreviations);
Fuzzyset.js is a package that provides fuzzy string matching. It can be used to find strings that approximate other strings but does not generate abbreviations. It is more complex and suitable for cases where you want to match user input against a list of strings and find the closest match.
This package is used to find how similar two strings are or to find the best match in an array of strings. Unlike abbrev, it does not create abbreviations but rather compares strings for similarity, which can be useful in search algorithms and typo correction.
Changelog
2.0.0 (2022-10-31)
abbrev
is now compatible with the following semver range for node:
^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0
monkeyPatch
API has been removed602c0fe
add @npmcli/template-oss (#36) (@lukekarrys)b658525
replace deprecated String.prototype.substr() (#38) (@CommanderRoot)Readme
Just like ruby's Abbrev.
Usage:
var abbrev = require("abbrev");
abbrev("foo", "fool", "folding", "flop");
// returns:
{ fl: 'flop'
, flo: 'flop'
, flop: 'flop'
, fol: 'folding'
, fold: 'folding'
, foldi: 'folding'
, foldin: 'folding'
, folding: 'folding'
, foo: 'foo'
, fool: 'fool'
}
This is handy for command-line scripts, or other cases where you want to be able to accept shorthands.
FAQs
Like ruby's abbrev module, but in js
The npm package abbrev receives a total of 19,629,957 weekly downloads. As such, abbrev popularity was classified as popular.
We found that abbrev demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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