search-text-tokenizer

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search-text-tokenizer

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A search query tokeniser inspired by Google.

  • Split a space-delimitered query string into an array of terms
  • Treat quoted terms as phrases
  • Support tagged terms (tag:term)
  • Detect excluded terms (-term)

Examples

var tokenizer = require( 'search-text-tokenizer' );
 
console.log( tokenizer( 'red bull' ) );
// [ { term: 'red' }, { term: 'bull' } ]
 
var result = console.log( tokenizer( '"red bull" "gives you wings"' ) );
// [ { term: 'red bull', phrase: true }, { term: 'gives you wings', phrase: true } ]
 
result = console.log( tokenizer( 'author:tolkien' ) );
// [ { term: 'tolkien', tag: 'author' } ]
 
result = console.log( tokenizer( '-car' ) );
// [ { term: 'car', exclude: true } ]

Installation

$ npm install search-text-tokenizer

Running test

To run the test suite enter these commands in the project directory.

$ npm install
$ npm test

License

MIT © Tatsuya Oiwa, Dannii Willis, James Anthony Bruno

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npm i search-text-tokenizer

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2.1.1

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