expand-brackets
Advanced tools
The expand-brackets npm package is used to expand and parse bracket expressions in strings. It is particularly useful for handling patterns in strings that involve brackets, such as character classes in regular expressions.
Expand Bracket Expressions
This feature allows you to expand bracket expressions into their constituent characters. For example, the expression '[a-c]' is expanded into ['a', 'b', 'c'].
const expandBrackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(expandBrackets('[a-c]')); // Output: ['a', 'b', 'c']Handle Negated Bracket Expressions
This feature handles negated bracket expressions, expanding them while preserving the negation symbol. For example, '[^a-c]' is expanded into ['^', 'a', 'b', 'c'].
const expandBrackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(expandBrackets('[^a-c]')); // Output: ['^', 'a', 'b', 'c']Custom Bracket Expansion
This feature allows for custom expansion of bracket expressions based on options provided. For example, using the option { expand: true } with '[a-c]' results in ['a', 'b', 'c'].
const expandBrackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(expandBrackets('[a-c]', { expand: true })); // Output: ['a', 'b', 'c']The braces package is used for expanding and parsing brace expressions. It offers more comprehensive functionality for handling complex brace patterns, including nested and sequential expansions. Compared to expand-brackets, braces provides a broader range of pattern expansions.
Micromatch is a powerful globbing library that supports advanced matching features, including brace and bracket expansions. It is more versatile than expand-brackets, as it can handle a wide variety of glob patterns and matching rules.
Minimatch is a lightweight library for matching file paths against glob patterns. It includes support for bracket and brace expansions, making it a good alternative to expand-brackets for file path matching and pattern expansion.
Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns.
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save expand-brackets
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
brackets(string[, options]);
Params
The main export is a function that takes the following parameters:
pattern {String}: the pattern to convertoptions {Object}: optionally supply an options objectreturns {String}: returns a string that can be used to create a regexExample
console.log(brackets('[![:lower:]]'));
//=> '[^a-z]'
Parses the given POSIX character class pattern and returns a
string that can be used for creating regular expressions for matching.
Params
pattern {String}options {Object}returns {Object}Takes an array of strings and a POSIX character class pattern, and returns a new array with only the strings that matched the pattern.
Example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(brackets.match(['1', 'a', 'ab'], '[[:alpha:]]'));
//=> ['a']
console.log(brackets.match(['1', 'a', 'ab'], '[[:alpha:]]+'));
//=> ['a', 'ab']
Params
arr {Array}: Array of strings to matchpattern {String}: POSIX character class pattern(s)options {Object}returns {Array}Returns true if the specified string matches the given brackets pattern.
Example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(brackets.isMatch('a.a', '[[:alpha:]].[[:alpha:]]'));
//=> true
console.log(brackets.isMatch('1.2', '[[:alpha:]].[[:alpha:]]'));
//=> false
Params
string {String}: String to matchpattern {String}: Poxis patternoptions {String}returns {Boolean}Takes a POSIX character class pattern and returns a matcher function. The returned function takes the string to match as its only argument.
Example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
var isMatch = brackets.matcher('[[:lower:]].[[:upper:]]');
console.log(isMatch('a.a'));
//=> false
console.log(isMatch('a.A'));
//=> true
Params
pattern {String}: Poxis patternoptions {String}returns {Boolean}Create a regular expression from the given pattern.
Example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
var re = brackets.makeRe('[[:alpha:]]');
console.log(re);
//=> /^(?:[a-zA-Z])$/
Params
pattern {String}: The pattern to convert to regex.options {Object}returns {RegExp}Parses the given POSIX character class pattern and returns an object with the compiled output and optional source map.
Example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
console.log(brackets('[[:alpha:]]'));
// { options: { source: 'string' },
// input: '[[:alpha:]]',
// state: {},
// compilers:
// { eos: [Function],
// noop: [Function],
// bos: [Function],
// not: [Function],
// escape: [Function],
// text: [Function],
// posix: [Function],
// bracket: [Function],
// 'bracket.open': [Function],
// 'bracket.inner': [Function],
// 'bracket.literal': [Function],
// 'bracket.close': [Function] },
// output: '[a-zA-Z]',
// ast:
// { type: 'root',
// errors: [],
// nodes: [ [Object], [Object], [Object] ] },
// parsingErrors: [] }
Params
pattern {String}options {Object}returns {Object}Generate a source map for the given pattern.
Example
var res = brackets('[:alpha:]', {sourcemap: true});
console.log(res.map);
// { version: 3,
// sources: [ 'brackets' ],
// names: [],
// mappings: 'AAAA,MAAS',
// sourcesContent: [ '[:alpha:]' ] }
The following named POSIX bracket expressions are supported:
[:alnum:]: Alphanumeric characters (a-zA-Z0-9])[:alpha:]: Alphabetic characters (a-zA-Z])[:blank:]: Space and tab ([ t])[:digit:]: Digits ([0-9])[:lower:]: Lowercase letters ([a-z])[:punct:]: Punctuation and symbols. ([!"#$%&'()*+, -./:;<=>?@ [\]^_``{|}~])[:upper:]: Uppercase letters ([A-Z])[:word:]: Word characters (letters, numbers and underscores) ([A-Za-z0-9_])[:xdigit:]: Hexadecimal digits ([A-Fa-f0-9])See posix-character-classes for more details.
Not supported
Breaking changes
Added features
.create method to do what the main function did before v0.3.0In addition to performance and matching improvements, the v0.2.0 refactor adds complete POSIX character class support, with the exception of equivalence classes and POSIX.2 collating symbols which are not relevant to node.js usage.
Added features
source map example
var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
var res = brackets('[:alpha:]');
console.log(res.map);
{ version: 3,
sources: [ 'brackets' ],
names: [],
mappings: 'AAAA,MAAS',
sourcesContent: [ '[:alpha:]' ] }
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
| Commits | Contributor |
|---|---|
| 35 | jonschlinkert |
| 2 | MartinKolarik |
| 2 | es128 |
| 1 | eush77 |
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