emoji-regex

emoji-regex

emoji-regex offers a regular expression to match all Emoji-only symbols as per the Unicode Standard.

This repository contains a script that generates this regular expression based on the data from Unicode Technical Report #51. Because of this, the regular expression can easily be updated whenever new emoji are added to the Unicode standard.

Installation

Via npm:

npm install emoji-regex

In Node.js:

var emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex');
// Note: because the regular expression has the global flag set, this module
// exports a function that returns the regex rather than exporting the regular
// expression itself, to make it impossible to (accidentally) mutate the
// original regular expression.

emojiRegex().test('🆘');
// → true
emojiRegex().test('💩');
// → true
emojiRegex().test('🇾🇪');
// → true

var flag = '🇾🇪'; // flag for Yemen
flag.match(emojiRegex())[0] == flag;
// → true

Author

Mathias Bynens

License

emoji-regex is available under the MIT license.

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