find-versions
Advanced tools
The find-versions npm package is designed to extract version numbers from strings. It is useful for parsing and identifying version numbers in various formats from text, allowing developers to easily extract and manipulate version information programmatically.
Extracting version numbers from strings
This feature allows you to extract version numbers from a given string. The function returns an array of version numbers found within the string. It's particularly useful for parsing logs, documents, or any text content that may contain version numbers.
"const findVersions = require('find-versions');\nconsole.log(findVersions('unicorn v1.2.3')); //=> ['1.2.3']"Extracting version numbers with options
This feature extends the basic functionality by allowing you to specify options for the extraction process. For example, setting the 'loose' option to true enables the function to match version numbers that don't strictly follow semantic versioning.
"const findVersions = require('find-versions');\nconsole.log(findVersions('cat 1.2.3 and dog 4.5.6', {loose: true})); //=> ['1.2.3', '4.5.6']"The semver package is a module for semantic versioning. It provides utilities for parsing and comparing semantic versions. While it focuses on semantic versioning, find-versions is more general-purpose, extracting version numbers from strings regardless of their format.
validate-version is a package that allows you to check if a string is a valid semantic version. Unlike find-versions, which extracts version numbers from arbitrary text, validate-version focuses on validating the format of version strings.
Find semver versions in a string:
unicorn v1.2.3→1.2.3
npm install find-versions
import findVersions from 'find-versions';
findVersions('unicorn v1.2.3 rainbow 2.3.4+build.1');
//=> ['1.2.3', '2.3.4+build.1']
findVersions('cp (GNU coreutils) 8.22', {loose: true});
//=> ['8.22.0']
Type: string
Type: object
Type: boolean
Default: false
Also match non-semver versions like 1.88. They're coerced into semver compliant versions.
FAQs
Find semver versions in a string: `unicorn v1.2.3` → `1.2.3`
The npm package find-versions receives a total of 2,999,178 weekly downloads. As such, find-versions popularity was classified as popular.
We found that find-versions demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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