tokenize-this

TokenizeThis

Quickstart

It turns a string into tokens.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = 'Tokenize this!';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, ['Tokenize', 'this', '!']);

By default, it can tokenize math-based strings.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = '5 + 6 -(4/2) + gcd(10, 5)';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token) {
    tokens.push(token);
});

equals(tokens, [5, '+', 6, '-', '(', 4, '/', 2, ')', '+', 'gcd', '(', 10, ',', 5, ')']);

...Or SQL.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = 'SELECT COUNT(id), 5+6 FROM `users` WHERE name = "shaun persad" AND hobby IS NULL';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    
    if (surroundedBy) {
        tokens.push(surroundedBy+token+surroundedBy);
    } else {
        tokens.push(token);
    }
});
equals(tokens, [
    'SELECT',
    'COUNT', '(', 'id', ')',
    ',',
    5, '+', 6,
    'FROM', '`users`',
    'WHERE',
    'name', '=', '"shaun persad"',
    'AND',
    'hobby', 'IS', null
]);

Installation

npm install tokenize-this.

// or if in the browser: <script src="tokenize-this/tokenize-this.min.js"></script>

Usage

require it, create a new instance, then call tokenize.

// var TokenizeThis = require('tokenize-this');
// OR
// var TokenizeThis = require('tokenize-this/tokenize-this.min.js'); // for node.js < 4.0
// OR
// <script src="tokenize-this/tokenize-this.min.js"></script> <!-- if in browser -->

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();

var str = 'Hi!, I want to add 5+6';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, ['Hi', '!', ',', 'I', 'want', 'to', 'add', 5, '+', 6]);

Advanced Usage

Supplying a config object to the constructor

See here for all options

This can be used to tokenize many forms of data, like JSON into key-value pairs.

var jsonConfig = {
    shouldTokenize: ['{', '}', '[', ']'],
    shouldMatch: ['"'],
    shouldDelimitBy: [' ', "\n", "\r", "\t", ':', ','],
    convertLiterals: true
};
var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis(jsonConfig);
var str = '[{name:"Shaun Persad", id: 5}, { gender : null}]';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, ['[', '{', 'name', 'Shaun Persad', 'id', 5, '}', '{', 'gender', null, '}', ']']);

Here it is tokenizing XML like a boss.

var xmlConfig = {
    shouldTokenize: ['<?', '?>', '<!', '<', '</', '>', '/>', '='],
    shouldMatch: ['"'],
    shouldDelimitBy: [' ', "\n", "\r", "\t"],
    convertLiterals: true
};
var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis(xmlConfig);
var str = `
<?xml-stylesheet href="catalog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE catalog SYSTEM "catalog.dtd">
<catalog>
   <product description="Cardigan Sweater" product_image="cardigan.jpg">
      <size description="Large" />
      <color_swatch image="red_cardigan.jpg">
        Red
      </color_swatch>
   </product>
</catalog>                
`;
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens,
    [
        '<?', 'xml-stylesheet', 'href', '=', 'catalog.xsl', 'type', '=', 'text/xsl', '?>',
        '<!', 'DOCTYPE', 'catalog', 'SYSTEM', 'catalog.dtd', '>',
        '<', 'catalog', '>',
        '<', 'product', 'description', '=', 'Cardigan Sweater', 'product_image', '=', 'cardigan.jpg', '>',
        '<', 'size', 'description', '=', 'Large', '/>',
        '<', 'color_swatch', 'image', '=', 'red_cardigan.jpg', '>',
        'Red',
        '</', 'color_swatch', '>',
        '</', 'product', '>',
        '</', 'catalog', '>'
    ]
);

The above examples are the first steps in writing parsers for those formats. The next would be parsing the stream of tokens based on the format-specific rules, e.g. SQL.

API

Methods

#tokenize(str:String, forEachToken:Function)

sends each token to the forEachToken(token:String, surroundedBy:String) callback.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = 'Tokenize "this"!';
var tokens = [];
var forEachToken = function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(surroundedBy+token+surroundedBy);
};
tokenizer.tokenize(str, forEachToken);
equals(tokens, ['Tokenize', '"this"', '!']);

it converts true, false, null, and numbers into their literal versions.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = 'true false null TRUE FALSE NULL 1 2 3.4 5.6789';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, [true, false, null, true, false, null, 1, 2, 3.4, 5.6789]);

.defaultConfig:Object

The default config object used when no config is supplied.

var config = {
    shouldTokenize: ['(', ')', ',', '*', '/', '%', '+', '-', '=', '!=', '!', '<', '>', '<=', '>=', '^'],
    shouldMatch: ['"', "'", '`'],
    shouldDelimitBy: [' ', "\n", "\r", "\t"],
    convertLiterals: true,
    escapeCharacter: "\\"
};
equals(TokenizeThis.defaultConfig, config);

You can change converting to literals with the convertLiterals config option.

var config = {
    convertLiterals: false
};
var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis(config);
var str = 'true false null TRUE FALSE NULL 1 2 3.4 5.6789';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, ['true', 'false', 'null', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', 'NULL', '1', '2', '3.4', '5.6789']);

Any strings surrounded by the quotes specified in the shouldMatch option are treated as whole tokens.

var config = {
    shouldMatch: ['"', '`', '#']
};
var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis(config);
var str = '"hi there" `this is a test` #of quotes#';
var tokens = [];
var tokensQuoted = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(token);
    tokensQuoted.push(surroundedBy+token+surroundedBy);
});
equals(tokens, ['hi there', 'this is a test', 'of quotes']);
equals(tokensQuoted, ['"hi there"', '`this is a test`', '#of quotes#']);

Quotes can be escaped via a backslash.

var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis();
var str = 'These are "\\"quotes\\""';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(token);
});

equals(tokens, ['These', 'are', '"quotes"']);

The escape character can be specified with the escapeCharacter option.

var config = {
    escapeCharacter: '#'
};
var tokenizer = new TokenizeThis(config);
var str = 'These are "#"quotes#""';
var tokens = [];
tokenizer.tokenize(str, function(token, surroundedBy) {
    tokens.push(token);
});
equals(tokens, ['These', 'are', '"quotes"']);