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Parsa Kafi
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Split text without spaces into list of words in Node.js

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For my recent project, I need a trick to split strings contain English words to separate words. My stack is Node.js and no packages have been developed for my need.

For example, I need this string "youneedtolearnfromyourmistakes" split to words "You Need To Learn From Your Mistakes".

For this reason, I began searching for the development of a package for my need. And finally, with some open source project, I develop a package for split strings to words. The package called "wordsninja" has been released.

https://github.com/parsakafi/wordsninja
https://npmjs.com/package/wordsninja

Install 

npm install wordsninja --save

Load package

const WordsNinjaPack = require('wordsninja'); const WordsNinja = new WordsNinjaPack();

Load dictionary

await WordsNinja.loadDictionary(); // First load dictionary

Add word(s)

WordsNinja.addWords('new word');

Parameters

  • word: The word(s) (string|array)

Split sentence 

let words = WordsNinja.splitSentence(string, {camelCaseSplitter, capitalizeFirstLetter, joinWords});

Parameters

  • string: The string for split
  • options
    • camelCaseSplitter: Split by Camel Case, Default is false (optional)
    • capitalizeFirstLetter: Capitalize First Letter, Default is false (optional)
    • joinWords: Return join words as sentence, Default is false (optional)

Example

(async () => { await WordsNinja.loadDictionary(); // First load dictionary let string = 'youneedtolearnfromyourmistakes'; let words = WordsNinja.splitSentence(string); console.log(words); })();

Result

[ 'you', 'need', 'to', 'learn', 'from', 'your', 'mistakes' ]

More options 

let string = 'youneedtolearnfromyourmistakes'; let words = WordsNinja.splitSentence(string, { camelCaseSplitter: true, // Frist camel case spliting capitalizeFirstLetter: true, // Capitalize first letter of result joinWords: true // Join words } ); console.log(words);

Result

You Need To Learn From Your Mistakes

Add Word(s)

You can add new word(s) to dictionary in run-time

WordsNinja.addWords('Parsa'); // Add one word WordsNinja.addWords(['Parsa', 'Kafi']); // Add one or more words

Example

let string = 'parsayouneedtolearnfromyourmistakes'; WordsNinja.addWords('Parsa'); let words = WordsNinja.splitSentence(string, { capitalizeFirstLetter: true, // Capitalize first letter of result joinWords: true // Join words } ); console.log(words);

Result

Parsa You Need To Learn From Your Mistakes

I hope you find it useful :)

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