Is there any way i can filter files with given extension and then further filter them
for eg: I have .txt extension and i want to get all my .txt from an array
file=
[ "animal_bio.txt",
"xray.pdf",
"fish_bio.txt",
"mammal_doc.txt",
"human_bio.txt",
"machine.jpg"
]
filtered output contain all .txt extension and further it should contain all the files which have _bio.txt name in it.
so output look like
futherFile=
[ "human_bio.txt",
"fish_bio.txt",
"animal_bio.txt"
]
You can use String.protytype.endsWith function to compare the strings with your extension
const file =
[ "animal_bio.txt",
"xray.pdf",
"fish_bio.txt",
"mammal_doc.txt",
"human_bio.txt",
"machine.jpg"
]
result = file.filter((fileName) => fileName.endsWith("_bio.txt"));
console.log(result)
You can use the Array.filter method and use the String.endsWith method to filter. An example -
// List of files
file = ["animal_bio.txt",
"xray.pdf",
"fish_bio.txt",
"mammal_doc.txt",
"human_bio.txt",
"machine.jpg"
]
// Filtering by extension
file.filter(x => x.endsWith(".txt"));Hope it helped :)
You can easily achieve this result using reduce and match
When matching for the doc or bio, You can even restrict more to get the string only if _doc.txt is at end of the string using Regular expression /_bio.txt$/
const arr = [
{
id: "1",
name: "animal_bio.txt",
},
{
id: "2",
name: "xray.pdf",
},
{
id: "3",
name: "animal_doc.txt",
},
{
id: "4",
name: "fish_doc.txt",
},
{
id: "5",
name: "flower_petals.jpg",
},
{
id: "5",
name: "plant_roots.jpg",
},
{
id: "6",
name: "human_image.jpg",
},
{
id: "7",
name: "human_bio.txt",
},
{
id: "8",
name: "mammal_doc.txt",
},
];
const result = arr.reduce((acc, { name }) => {
if (name.match(/\.txt$/)) {
if (name.match(/_bio/)) {
acc[0].push(name);
} else {
acc[1].push(name);
}
}
return acc;
},
[[], []]
);
console.log(result);Then you can get the element containing doc and bio using array destructuring as
const [bioArr, docArr] = result;
console.log(bioArr);
console.log(docArr);
const arr = [
{
id: "1",
name: "animal_bio.txt",
},
{
id: "2",
name: "xray.pdf",
},
{
id: "3",
name: "animal_doc.txt",
},
{
id: "4",
name: "fish_doc.txt",
},
{
id: "5",
name: "flower_petals.jpg",
},
{
id: "5",
name: "plant_roots.jpg",
},
{
id: "6",
name: "human_image.jpg",
},
{
id: "7",
name: "human_bio.txt",
},
{
id: "8",
name: "mammal_doc.txt",
},
];
const result = arr.reduce(
(acc, { name }) => {
if (name.match(/\.txt$/)) {
if (name.match(/_bio/)) {
acc[0].push(name);
} else {
acc[1].push(name);
}
}
return acc;
},
[[], []]
);
const [bioArr, docArr] = result;
console.log(bioArr);
console.log(docArr);
/\.txt/ to match an extension is a bug - I know because I made the same mistake once and it caused problems. Match /\.txt$/ to only match .txt as an extension but not if it occurs somewhere else in the filename.you can use filter function from ES6 like:
const txtFile = file.filter((item) => (item.split('_'))[1] === 'bio.txt')
txtfiles and then group them by the suffix after_- is that right? Did you try anything at all? Show your code