Javascript challenge. Video Caption to simple Text

Question

Hi, Everyone

I came up with a problem,
I'm not ready to do it by my self. So, I thought that maybe it could be useful to some one else, as practice.

I downloaded a Youtube caption with this format:

mm:ssSome text

Ex:
20:00This is a line of caption
20:12This is another line
20:18This is a third line
20:21a fourth line to be sure

and so on...

I want to keep only the text, without the time at the beginning.
To make it more difficult. the time before the 10 minutes has only one digit:

8:45
9:30
9:55
10:03
10:30
11:55

I wouldn't even know where to start. XD
Good luck, and thanks.

Answer 1

JS is not the best choice for this - you'll need to run it on node to be able to handle files. Otherwise here is a pseudocode:
numbers=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,:] // use chars
openfile ();
while not endOfFile{
line = readline ();
while numbers.indexOf( line [0] ) !== -1
line = line.substr (1); // delete the first char
writeToFile ();
}

Answer 2

I wonder if what Gonzalo is saying can even be done...

Answer 3

in addition to nikolay
also by

1) setting : as reference and maninpulate from that

2) by regex

Answer 4

hi. please I know I am not supposed to ask here but please I don't get the question, am still a learner .my question is -would this code be implemented in the browser console and debugger?