text-block-parser

Parse blocks of text based on indentation.

This is a fork of https://github.com/reergymerej/block-parser that adds:

• types
• maxNodes option

Install

npm install text-block-parser

Usage

const { parse } = require('text-block-parser')

const input = `
hello
world
`

parse(input)

[ { scope: 'hello', children: [] },
  { scope: 'world', children: [] } ]

The maximum number of children is 100 by default. Additional children will be dropped. To allow more children, you can specify maxNodes in the second argument:

parse(input, Infinity)

Deep

We don't care about blank lines or the type of indentation.

input = `
fruits
  apple
    gala
    pink lady
  pear

  cherry
    white

veggies
  kale
    red russian

  cabbage
  radish
`

parse(input)

[ { scope: 'fruits',
    children:
     [ { scope: '  apple',
         children:
          [ { scope: '    gala', children: [] },
            { scope: '    pink lady', children: [] } ] },
       { scope: '  pear', children: [] },
       { scope: '  cherry',
         children: [ { scope: '    white', children: [] } ] } ] },
  { scope: 'veggies',
    children:
     [ { scope: '  kale',
         children: [ { scope: '    red russian', children: [] } ] },
       { scope: '  cabbage', children: [] },
       { scope: '  radish', children: [] } ] } ]