char-regex
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A regex to match any full character, considering weird character ranges.
Package description
The char-regex npm package provides a regular expression to match all the symbols in a string, including those outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). This is particularly useful for handling and manipulating strings containing complex characters, such as emojis or certain language scripts, which are represented by surrogate pairs in JavaScript.
Matching all characters in a string
This code demonstrates how to use char-regex to match and extract all characters, including complex emojis, from a string. The result is an array of individual characters, making it easier to manipulate or analyze the text at a character level.
const charRegex = require('char-regex');
const text = 'Hello, world! 👋🌍';
const characters = text.match(charRegex());
console.log(characters);XRegExp provides extended capabilities for JavaScript regular expressions, including additional syntax, flags, and methods. It supports Unicode and adds new regex features, making it more powerful but also more complex than char-regex, which focuses solely on character matching.
regexpu-core is a tool that compiles ES6 Unicode regular expressions to ES5. It's similar to char-regex in that it helps handle Unicode characters effectively, but it also transforms newer regex syntax to be compatible with older JavaScript engines.
Readme
A regex to match any full character, considering weird character ranges. Tested on every single emoji and unicode character. Based on the Lodash implementation.
npm install char-regex
import charRegex from 'char-regex';
'❤️👊🏽'.match(/./);
//=> ['', '', '', '', '', '', '']
'❤️👊🏽'.match(charRegex());
//=> ['❤️', '👊🏽']
FAQs
A regex to match any full character, considering weird character ranges.
We found that char-regex demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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