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import { CompiledRules } from 'nearley';
import nearley from 'nearley';
import { Parser } from 'wherehows-web/typings/modules/nearley';
/**
* We will pre-process the string to remove extra spaces that will slow down the parser.
* @param text
* @param grammar
*/
export const parse = (text: string, grammar: CompiledRules): Parser => {
const noExtraSpaces = text.replace(/[\s]+/gi, ' ').trim();
const parser = new nearley.Parser(nearley.Grammar.fromCompiled(grammar));
const withLastSpace = text.endsWith(' ') ? `${noExtraSpaces} ` : noExtraSpaces;
parser.feed(withLastSpace);
return parser;
};