/** * fast string manipulation utilities * for bi-lingual (EL/EN) words/phrases * based on the keyboard layout */ // suplamentary arrays (mostly for cache) // --- -- -- - - - var ORiGiNal = 'ςερτυθιοπασδφγηξκλζχψωβνμΕΡΤΥΘΙΟΠΑΣΔΦΓΗΞΚΛΖΧΨΩΒΝΜάέήίόύώϊΐϋΆΈΉΊΌΎΏΪΫQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNMqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm0123456789- '.split(''); var kbKeyZed = 'sertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmaehioyviiyaehioyviyqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm0123456789- '.split(''); var map = new Map(); for (var i=0; i { ap = pair.split(' '); accented_vowels.push({ a: ap[0], // accented p: ap[1] // pure = non accended }); }); // translates string to keyboard-latin keys // (the ones that used whan typing each letter of the word) const keyboardize = (str) => { str = str.replace('\'',''); var out = ''; // [map]'s implementation is 40x faster than [for]'s for (var i=0 ; i< str.length; i++) out += map.get(str[i]); return out; } // keyboardize an array of strings const keyb_array = (arr) => { kb_arr = []; arr.forEach( w => { kb_arr.push(keyboardize(w)); }); return kb_arr; } // transforms to lowercase; handles sigma-teliko const sanitizeGR = (str) => { str = str.toLowerCase(); // replace accended vowels with pure ones accented_vowels.forEach( v => { str = str.replaceAll(v.a, v.p); }); // replace sigma on the end of words str = str + ' '; str = str.replaceAll('σ-', 'ς-'); str = str.replaceAll('σ ', 'ς '); return str; } // removes non keyword characters [+ . , !] and internal multiple-spaces // @param txt (string): product description const clean = (txt) => { return txt.replace('+',' ').replace('.',' ').replace(',',' ') // change to space .replace('!','').replace('\"', '') // remove character .replace(' ',' ').replace(' ',' '); // remove multiple spaces } // exports // --- -- -- - - - module.exports = { keyboardize, keyb_array, sanitizeGR, clean };