comment-regex

comment-regex

Regular expression for matching JavaScript comments

This is pretty fragile and created for perf reasons where using a real parser would be overkill.

Install

$ npm install --save comment-regex

Usage

var commentRegex = require('comment-regex');

// contains a comment
commentRegex().test('/* unicorn */\nvar foo = true;');
//=> true

// get the contents of a comment
commentRegex().exec('/* unicorn */\nvar foo = true;')[2].trim();

// get all the comments
'/* unicorn */\nvar foo = true;\nvar unicorn = "rainbows"; // rainbow'.match(commentRegex());
//=> ['/* unicorn */', ' // rainbow']

API

The contents of the comment is in the first submatch.

commentRegex()

Returns a regex for matching line and block comments.

commentRegex.line()

Returns a regex for matching line comments.

commentRegex.block()

Returns a regex for matching block comments.

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus