remove-words

remove-words

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.