Module: wordStringParsing

Contains all system defined business rules for parsing words and lists.

Author:
  • Seth Hollingsead
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Requires

Methods

(inner) aggregateNumericalDifferenceBetweenTwoStrings(inputData, inputMetaData) → {integer}

Determines the delta difference between the two input strings and returns it as a number.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

String 1 to compare.

inputMetaData string

String 2 to compare.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

The delta difference between the two strings, expressed as a number.

Type
integer

(inner) compareSimplifiedAndConsolidatedStrings(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Compares two strings by their simplified versions (see simplifyAndConsolidateString()).

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The first string to be compared.

inputMetaData string

The second string to be compared.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

A True or False value to indicate if the strings are virtually identical or not.

Type
boolean

(inner) countCamelCaseWords(inputData, inputMetaData) → {integer}

Takes a string in camelCase and returns the number of words that it contains based on camel case rules.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

String to count words from.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

The number of camel case words found in the string.

Type
integer

(inner) countDelimiterInString(inputData, inputMetaData) → {integer}

Takes a string and returns the number of specified delimiters it contains.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

String to count delimiters from.

inputMetaData string

The delimiter that should be used when counting from the input string.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

The number of delimiters found in the string.

Type
integer

(inner) determineWordDelimiter(inputData, inputMetaData) → {string}

Determines what delimiter should e used to break a string up into words if possible.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that should be examined to determine what delimiter should be used to break it up into words.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

The delimiter that should be used, or if camelCase then the function will return the string "CamelCase".

Type
string

(inner) doesStringContainAcronym(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Scans a string and determines if there are 2 or more immediately adjacent upper-case characters in the string. Example: nodeJS where JS is an acronym for JavaScript.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that should be scanned to determine if it contains an acronym or not.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

True or False to indicate if the input string contains an acronym.

Type
boolean

(inner) getWordCountInString(inputData, inputMetaData) → {integer}

Gets the number of words in a string, it expects words to be delimited by either camel-case, spaces, period, dash, underscore, plus or percent symbols.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that words should be counted from.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

The number of words that were found in the string.

Type
integer

(inner) isStringCamelCase(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Determines if an input string is a camel case string or not.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that should be checked for the camel case qualifications.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

True or False to indicate if the string is camel case or not.

Type
boolean

(inner) isStringList(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Determines if the input string is a list or not.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that should be checked if it is a list or not.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

True or False to indicate if the input string is a list or not a list. Using the list of system defined primary, secondary or tertiary command delimiters.

Type
boolean

(inner) mapWordToCamelCaseWord(inputData, inputMetaData) → {string}

Takes a string key and an indexed string value and maps the word to an upper case first letter word.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string key/value that should be converted to a camel case word.

inputMetaData string

The string index for the map to the value that should be used.

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  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

A string where the word has been converted into a camel case word.

Type
string

(inner) simplifyAndConsolidateString(inputData, inputMetaData) → {string}

Takes a string, and returns a version of it converted to lower case, with all digits and symbols and whitespace removed.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
inputData string

The string that should be simplified and consolidated.

inputMetaData string

Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  • Seth Hollingsead
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Returns:

A string that has been simplified and consolidated by converting to lower case, removing all digits, symbols and white space.

Type
string