expand-range

expand-range

Fast, bash-like range expansion. Expand a range of numbers or letters, uppercase or lowercase. Used by micromatch.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save expand-range

Example usage

var expand = require('expand-range');
expand('start..end..step', options);

// examples
console.log(expand('1..3')) //=> ['1', '2', '3']
console.log(expand('1..10..3')) //=> [ '1', '4', '7', '10' ]

Params

• start: the number or letter to start with
• end: the number or letter to end with
• step: (optional) the step/increment to use. works with letters and numbers.
• options: Options object to pass to fill-range, or a transform function (see fill-range readme for details and documentation)

This library wraps fill-range to support range expansion using .. separated strings. See fill-range for the full list of options and features.

Examples

expand('a..e')
//=> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

expand('a..e..2')
//=> ['a', 'c', 'e']

expand('A..E..2')
//=> ['A', 'C', 'E']

expand('1..3')
//=> ['1', '2', '3']

expand('0..-5')
//=> [ '0', '-1', '-2', '-3', '-4', '-5' ]

expand('-9..9..3')
//=> [ '-9', '-6', '-3', '0', '3', '6', '9' ])

expand('-1..-10..-2')
//=> [ '-1', '-3', '-5', '-7', '-9' ]

expand('1..10..2')
//=> [ '1', '3', '5', '7', '9' ]

Custom function

Optionally pass a custom function as the second argument:

expand('a..e', function (val, isNumber, pad, i) {
  if (!isNumber) {
    return String.fromCharCode(val) + i;
  }
  return val;
});
//=> ['a0', 'b1', 'c2', 'd3', 'e4']

Benchmarks

Benchmarking: (4 of 4)
 · alpha-lower
 · alpha-upper
 · padded
 · range

# benchmark/fixtures/alpha-lower.js (29 bytes)
  brace-expansion x 105,234 ops/sec ±0.65% (87 runs sampled)
  expand-range x 364,206 ops/sec ±1.08% (90 runs sampled)
  minimatch x 93,343 ops/sec ±1.61% (86 runs sampled)

  fastest is expand-range

# benchmark/fixtures/alpha-upper.js (29 bytes)
  brace-expansion x 94,729 ops/sec ±0.49% (89 runs sampled)
  expand-range x 347,926 ops/sec ±1.11% (83 runs sampled)
  minimatch x 89,997 ops/sec ±1.10% (87 runs sampled)

  fastest is expand-range

# benchmark/fixtures/padded.js (33 bytes)
  brace-expansion x 9,948 ops/sec ±0.99% (85 runs sampled)
  expand-range x 209,741 ops/sec ±8.85% (83 runs sampled)
  minimatch x 9,125 ops/sec ±0.95% (85 runs sampled)

  fastest is expand-range

# benchmark/fixtures/range.js (29 bytes)
  brace-expansion x 75,911 ops/sec ±1.63% (85 runs sampled)
  expand-range x 525,728 ops/sec ±1.63% (85 runs sampled)
  minimatch x 69,066 ops/sec ±0.55% (86 runs sampled)

  fastest is expand-range

History

v2.0.0

Changes

• Special step characters are no longer supported, as the same thing can be accomplished with a custom transform function.
• The signature in the transform function has changed. See fill-range for more details.

About

Related projects

• braces: Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces… more | homepage
• fill-range: Fill in a range of numbers or letters, optionally passing an increment or step to… more | homepage
• micromatch: Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
58	jonschlinkert
1	dcohenb

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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