codestrings 🔤
strings but for your source code.
Extracts all the strings from your code.
Use Cases 🧑💻
- Facilitate translation of hard-coded text strings
- Quick glance at what a code is “saying” by looking at the strings within it (?)
- NLP (?)
Features ⚡
- Extract to json or csv
- Multiple files at once
- Single executable
So far, this has been only tested with Javascript.
Usage ⚙️
codestrings [parameters] file1,file2,file3,...
Parameters
--delimiters
delimiters to use for string extraction (comma separated and escaped) (default "\",',`")
--output
output type: json, csv (default "csv")
Examples 🧪
Let’s say you have this javascript file called example.js.
function greet(name) {
console.log(`Hello ${name}`);
}
var fname = "John";
const lname = "Doe";
let age = 42;
let address = {
street: "123 Main St",
city: "New York",
state: "NY",
};
You can extract all the strings from this file with:
codestrings example.js
The output will be:
example.js,"Hello ${name}","John","Doe","123 Main St","New York","NY"
Roadmap 🛣️
-
Add more tests especially with more programming languages
-
Improve algorithm performance
