find-australian-suburb/index.js

Extract and find Australian Suburb in text

const { includes, uniqWith, isEqual } = require('lodash');
const { suburbState } = require('australian-suburb-list');

const findInArray = (array) => {
  const suburbList = [];

  if (array !== null) {
    array.map((value) => {
      const val = ` ${value.trim().toLowerCase()} `;

      suburbState.map((subVal) => {
        const sub = ` ${subVal.suburb.toLowerCase()} `;

        if (includes(val, sub)) {
          suburbList.push(subVal);
        }
      });
    });

    return uniqWith(suburbList, isEqual);
  }
};

const findInText = (text) => {
  text.replace('.', ' ');
  text.replace(',', ' ');
  text.replace('(', ' ');
  text.replace(')', ' ');

  const res = text.match(/near\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+|in\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+|at\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+|to\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+|from\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+|of\s+(?:[A-Zaotfsnew'][a-z-]+[ ]?)+/gm);
  const result = findInArray(res);

  if (result) return result;

  return [];
};

module.exports = {
  findInArray,
  findInText,
};