intesso / text-to-string

Transform Text into a single line String

text-to-string

Transform Text into a single line String

install

npm install text-to-string

usage

this utility function can be used in node.js as well as in the browser e.g. with browserify. it can be useful, when you have to read a file, textarea value etc. and want to use it in the code in the form of a string variable.

with the given template file: index.tmpl

<ul id="stores" onClick="console.log('clicked')">
        <li class="emily">emily's store</li>
        <li class="punky">funky store</li>
</ul>

this javascript code:

var text2string = require('text-to-string');
var text = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/fixtures/index.tmpl', 'utf-8');

// convert text into single line string wrapped with double quotes
var double = text2string(tmpl);
console.log('string wrapped with double quotes\n', double);
	
// convert text into single line string wrapped with single quotes	
var single = text2string(tmpl, "'");
console.log('string wrapped with single quotes\n', single);

produces this output:

string wrapped with double quotes
 "<ul id=\"stores\" onClick=\"console.log('clicked')\">\n\t<li class=\"emily\">emily's store</li>\n\t<li class=\"punky\">funky store</li>\n</ul>\n"


string wrapped with single quotes
 '<ul id="stores" onClick="console.log(\'clicked\')">\n\t<li class="emily">emily\'s store</li>\n\t<li class="punky">funky store</li>\n</ul>\n'

inspiration

• https://github.com/substack/quote-stream/blob/master/index.js
• https://github.com/tj/node-string-to-js/blob/master/index.js
• http://stackoverflow.com/posts/7365089/revisions