samiahmedsiddiqui / trim-words

Trims text to a certain number of words.

trim-words

Trims text to a certain number of words.

Install

Via npm

npm install trim-words

Via Yarn

yarn add trim-words

Usage

With CommonJS

var trimWords = require('trim-words').default;

With React

import trimWords from 'trim-words';

Example

Trims text to a certain number of words in Node.js

const trimWords = require('trim-words').default;

const text = `<h1>What is Geostatistics?</h1 > <script>var a = 1; b = 2;</script><style>p { color: red; }</style><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis tincidunt quam ut ligula ullamcorper interdum. Nulla malesuada purus tristique justo tristique, id posuere purus tristique. Pellentesque non magna ut libero elementum interdum vel vitae ante. Sed porta auctor urna eget venenatis. Mauris nec convallis metus. Sed at dui elit. Donec rhoncus justo neque, finibus commodo dui posuere ut. Maecenas in mi enim. Quisque maximus enim nunc.</p> <p>Donec eu ultricies ipsum. Fusce eget pellentesque urna. Vestibulum lacinia laoreet mi nec posuere. Duis vel elit elementum, scelerisque eros a, sodales eros. Praesent hendrerit neque velit, nec pretium ipsum finibus facilisis. Proin ultricies sem in sapien consectetur dictum.</p>`;

const trimmedText = trimWords(text, 60, '...');

console.log('Trimmed Text is: ', trimmedText);

Trims text to a certain number of words in React

import trimWords from 'trim-words';

const text = `<h1>What is Geostatistics?</h1 > <script>var a = 1; b = 2;</script><style>p { color: red; }</style><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis tincidunt quam ut ligula ullamcorper interdum. Nulla malesuada purus tristique justo tristique, id posuere purus tristique. Pellentesque non magna ut libero elementum interdum vel vitae ante. Sed porta auctor urna eget venenatis. Mauris nec convallis metus. Sed at dui elit. Donec rhoncus justo neque, finibus commodo dui posuere ut. Maecenas in mi enim. Quisque maximus enim nunc.</p> <p>Donec eu ultricies ipsum. Fusce eget pellentesque urna. Vestibulum lacinia laoreet mi nec posuere. Duis vel elit elementum, scelerisque eros a, sodales eros. Praesent hendrerit neque velit, nec pretium ipsum finibus facilisis. Proin ultricies sem in sapien consectetur dictum.</p>`;

const trimmedText = trimWords(text, 60, '...');

console.log('Trimmed Text is: ', trimmedText);

Parameters

Attributes	Type	Required	Default	Description
text	String	Yes		Text to trim.
numWords	Integer	No	55	Number of words.
more	String	No	ahellip;	What to append if the text needs to be trimmed.

Return

Trimmed text.

Tested

This package is tested with the Node.js and React Application.