html-comment-regex
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Regular expression for matching HTML comments
$ npm install --save html-comment-regex
var htmlCommentRegex = require('html-comment-regex');
htmlCommentRegex.test('<!DOCTYPE html><!--[if lt IE 7]> <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]--><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>Document</title></head><body></body></html>');
//=> true
htmlCommentRegex.test('<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><title>Document</title></head><body></body></html>');
//=> false
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Regular expression for matching HTML comments
The npm package html-comment-regex receives a total of 1,328,895 weekly downloads. As such, html-comment-regex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that html-comment-regex demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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