extract_description.js 547 Bytes
module.exports = extractDescription

// Extracts description from contents of a readme file in markdown format
function extractDescription (d) {
  if (!d) {
    return
  }
  if (d === 'ERROR: No README data found!') {
    return
  }
  // the first block of text before the first heading
  // that isn't the first line heading
  d = d.trim().split('\n')
  for (var s = 0; d[s] && d[s].trim().match(/^(#|$)/); s++) {
    ;
  }
  var l = d.length
  for (var e = s + 1; e < l && d[e].trim(); e++) {
    ;
  }
  return d.slice(s, e).join(' ').trim()
}