How to show parts of a string in a ordered list

Question

I have an String:

var data = 'Hei, how are u?. I am good. And you?.'

I am using EJS as my view engine, and i want show like this:

Currently i am using an array of arrays:

var data = [
  ['Hei, how are u?'],
  ['I am good.'],
  ['And you?']
]

Them i can do a for loop and show like a list.

This was the only way I could do, but I believe I'm doing wrong.

Can someone give me a hand here?

How break the string and show like a list in the HTML?

won't array of strings do instead of array of arrays? `var data = [ 'Hei, how are u?', 'I am good.', 'And you?' ]` — gp., Feb 20 '15 at 01:37
but how show like a list in the html using arrays of strings? — , Feb 20 '15 at 01:38
You should use the [split](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split) function to separate the original string. A possible separator might be `"."`. — ThreadedLemon, Feb 20 '15 at 01:40

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '15 at 01:42

3

sentence splitter can be used using

https://github.com/parmentf/node-sentence-tokenizer

and then use ejs for array parsing.

Thanks.

answered Feb 20 '15 at 01:42

Piyas De

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

0

say this is the data passed to ejs template.

var data = { parts: [ 'Hei, how are u?', 'I am good.', 'And you?' ] };

in ejs template:

<ol>
<% for(var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {%>
    <li><%= parts[i] %></li>
<% } %>
</ol>

note: use regex to split string into parts matching '.', '?' etc.

var txt = 'Hei, how are u?. I am good. And you?.';
var parts = txt.match(/[^\.!\?]+[\.!\?]+/g);
var data = { parts: parts };

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

Community

answered Feb 20 '15 at 01:46

gp.

i prefer not use modules if i can do without them what i want, because of this i am going to accept your answer. – Feb 20 '15 at 03:08

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