README.md

Advice-util library

This library is for using some common methods in all Advice's nodeJS projects

Installation

add in your package.json dependencies the following line:

"advice-util": "git+ssh://[email protected]:adviceinteractivegroup/npm-package-util.git"

and then run

npm install

Methods

normalize

This is the normalize method from GP's chibi-sephirot project that is intended to normalize address, name, phones strings for eventually being compared to another normalized string and determine similarity.

verifyNapGp

This is the verifyNap method from GP's chibi-sephirot project to compare 2 normalized strings and determine their similarity

isNumeric

This method is intended to verify if a string is numeric or not.

Parameters

string

Returns

boolean

isUrl

This method is intended to verify if a string is a url or not

Parameters

string

Returns

boolean

getDirectories

This method is intended to extract the directory property from the object elements of an array

Parameters

Array of objects

Returns

Array of strings (directory names)

sorensen

Jose Duran's modification to sorensen-dice algorithm to verify similarity between 2 strings

Parameters

arr1 String or Array arr2 String or Array

returns

double (sorensen-dice similarity index)