Counting blacklisted words in a sentence

You can check the number of blacklisted words found in a given sentence/string.

Syntax

blacklistCount(string: string, ...args: string[]): number

string: string - Given string/sentence to be checked.

blacklist: string[] - Blacklist

number - The resulting count of blacklisted words that exists in a string.

Throws an error if the required parameters are not given to the function.

import { blacklistCount } from '@princedev/redact';

Basic usage with a blacklisted word.

const racialBlacklist = blacklist('nigga', 'eskimo');
const count = blacklistCount('Wassup my nigga', racialBlacklist);

count would be 1.

Basic usage with no blacklisted word.

const racialBlacklist = blacklist('nigga', 'eskimo');
const count = blacklistCount('Wassup my friend', racialBlacklist);

count would be 0.

Another example with many blacklisted words

const racialBlacklist = blacklist('nigga', 'eskimo');
const count = blacklistCount('Wassup my nigga NiGGA NIGGA', racialBlacklist);

count would be 3.