parseListOutput

Parses a bulleted, numbered, or newline-separated list from LLM output into a clean string array.

Import

import { parseListOutput } from "flowneer/plugins/output";

Usage

const items = parseListOutput("- apples\n- bananas\n- oranges");
// ["apples", "bananas", "oranges"]

const items2 = parseListOutput("1. First item\n2. Second item\n3. Third item");
// ["First item", "Second item", "Third item"]

const items3 = parseListOutput("• item one\n• item two");
// ["item one", "item two"]

const items4 = parseListOutput("alpha\nbeta\ngamma");
// ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"]

Signature

function parseListOutput(text: string): string[];

Supported Formats

Format	Example
Dash bullets	- item
Asterisk bullets	* item
Bullet character	• item
Numbered (dot)	1. item
Numbered (paren)	1) item
Plain newlines	item (one per line)

Empty lines and whitespace-only entries are stripped from the result.

In a Flow

.then(async (s) => {
  const raw = await callLlm(
    `List 5 keywords for: "${s.topic}". One per line, no numbering.`
  );
  s.keywords = parseListOutput(raw);
  // s.keywords: ["AI", "machine learning", "deep learning", "NLP", "GPT"]
})