sections

Manipulate sections in a markdown string. A 'section' is a block of content preceded by a valid markdown ATX heading.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save sections

Usage

This is meant to be fast and opinionated, and only works with ATX headings.

var sections = require('sections');

API

.parse

Parses sections in a string of markdown and returns an object with two properties:

• sections: an array of markdown "sections", delimited by ATX headings,
• result: the cumulative result of whatever is returned by the (optional) function that is passed as the second argument. Returns an object that looks something like this

Params

• string {String}
• fn {Function}
• returns {Object}

Example

var fs = require('fs');
var readme = fs.readFileSync('example/basic.md', 'utf8');
var sections = require('sections');
console.log(sections.parse(readme));

.format

Format sections. By default, if no filter function is passed, this:

• filters out empty sections
• fixes whitespace between sections

Params

• str {String}: Markdown string
• fn {Function}: optional filter function
• returns {String}

Example object

The parsed object that is returned looks something like this:

{ sections:
   [ Section {
       pos: 12,
       count: 0,
       string: '# sections \n',
       heading: '# sections',
       level: 1,
       title: 'sections',
       body: '' },
     Section {
       pos: 32,
       count: 1,
       string: '\n## Foo\nThis is foo\n',
       heading: '## Foo',
       level: 2,
       title: 'Foo',
       body: 'This is foo' },
     Section {
       pos: 52,
       count: 2,
       string: '\n## Bar\nThis is bar\n',
       heading: '## Bar',
       level: 2,
       title: 'Bar',
       body: 'This is bar' },
     Section {
       pos: 72,
       count: 3,
       string: '\n## Baz\nThis is baz\n',
       heading: '## Baz',
       level: 2,
       title: 'Baz',
       body: 'This is baz' } ],
  result: '',
  headings: [ 'sections', 'Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz' ] }

About

Related projects

• gulp-format-md: Gulp plugin for beautifying markdown using pretty-remarkable. | homepage
• markdown-utils: Micro-utils for creating markdown snippets. | homepage
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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.1.28, on August 04, 2016.