Text Cleaner

A small tool for easily cleaning text.

Installation

npm install text-cleaner --save

Example

const TextCleaner = require('text-cleaner');
 
TextCleaner('Some <b>  TEXT to Clean</b>').stripHtml().condense().toLowerCase().valueOf();
// some text to clean

Usage

Constructor: TextCleaner(string)

const cleanString = TextCleaner('string');

Returns an object, with the following methods:

#valueOf() and #toString()

Returns the current working value of the string being cleaned

TextCleaner('STRING').valueOf()
// "STRING"
TextCleaner('STRING').toString()
// "STRING"

#length

TextCleaner('string').length
// 6

#remove(search string)

TextCleaner('string').remove('tr').valueOf()
// "sing"

#replace(search string, replace string)

TextCleaner('string').replace('tr', 'l').valueOf()
// "sling"

#trim()

TextCleaner(' string ').trim().valueOf()
// "string"

#toLowerCase()

TextCleaner('STRING').toLowerCase().valueOf()
// "string"

#toUpperCase()

TextCleaner('string').toUpperCase().valueOf()
// "STRING"

#truncate(length)

TextCleaner('a long string').truncate(6).valueOf()
// "a long"

#condense()

Condenses all white space to a single space

TextCleaner('s  \t t 	\nr i n g').condense().valueOf()
// "s t r i n g"

#stripEmails()

TextCleaner('Email me at: [e-mail]').stripEmails().valueOf()
// "Email me at: "

#stripHtml()

TextCleaner('<b>string<lb>').stripHtml().valueOf()
// "string"

#removeChars(options)

Remove all non-alpha characters, including numbers. Only letters, white space and characters specified in the exclude option will not be removed.

Options (object):

• replaceWith (default: "") Character to replace matched characters with. Allows for characters to be replaced by a space, preventing words from merging on character removal.
• exclude: (default: "") String of characters to exclude. These are added to a regular expression; e.g. "0-9" would exclude numbers from replacement

TextCleaner('~string1!').removeChars({ exclude: '!' }).valueOf()
// "string!"

#removeApostrophes()

Remove apostrophes from the text, but leave other single quotes in the text.

TextCleaner("a quote: 'he didn't'").removeApostrophes().valueOf()
// "a quote: 'he didnt'"

Allows words containing apostrophes to be treated separately to removeChars(), such as when replacing characters with a space with removeChars({ replaceWith: ' ' }), preserving the word.

/* undesired behaviour */
TextCleaner("don't(text)").removeChars({ replaceWith: ' ' }).trim().valueOf()
// "don t text"
 
/* desired behaviour */
TextCleaner("don't(text)").removeApostrophes().removeChars({ replaceWith: ' ' }).trim().valueOf()
// "dont text"

#removeStopWords()

Remove common stop words from the text for textual/sentiment anlysis. Uses stopword.

TextCleaner("the test string with some words").removeStopWords().valueOf()
// "test string words"