how to use the words function from lodash in javascript

To use the words function from lodash in JavaScript, you first need to install the lodash library. You can do this by running npm install lodash in your project directory or by including the lodash library in your HTML file with a script tag.

Once you have lodash installed or included, you can use the words function to split a string into an array of words. Here's an example:

index.tsx
const _ = require('lodash');

const sentence = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.';
const words = _.words(sentence);

console.log(words);
// Output: ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog."]
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In this example, we first import the lodash library using require(). Then, we define a sentence string and pass it to the words function as an argument. The words function splits the sentence into an array of words and returns it. Finally, we log the result to the console.

Note that you can also pass an optional pattern to the words function to specify a custom separator for splitting the string into words. For example:

index.tsx
const customPattern = /[^, ]+/g;
const phrase = 'apple, pear, banana';
const customWords = _.words(phrase, customPattern);

console.log(customWords);
// Output: ["apple", "pear", "banana"]
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Here, we use a regular expression pattern to split the string wherever there is a comma or a space.