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@orchidjs/unicode-variants
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A small utility for comparing strings with unicode variants
Supported comparisons:
const stringa = '1/4';
const stringb = '¼';
// without @orchidjs/unicode-variants
let regex = new RegExp(stringa,'ui');
console.log(regex.test(stringa)); // true
console.log(regex.test(stringb)); // false
// with @orchidjs/unicode-variants
import {getPattern} from '@orchidjs/unicode-variants';
let pattern = getPattern(stringa);
regex = new RegExp(stringa,'ui');
console.log(regex.test(stringa)); // true
console.log(regex.test(stringb)); // true
$ npm install @orchidjs/unicode-variants
Install the dependencies that are required to build and test:
$ npm install
Build from typescript
$ npm run build
Run tests
$ npm test
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FAQs
Unicode variant string matching
The npm package @orchidjs/unicode-variants receives a total of 66,310 weekly downloads. As such, @orchidjs/unicode-variants popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @orchidjs/unicode-variants demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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