jgirl

###JGIRL by Yakov Nivin, 2016

Simple parser of arguments for Netiety The idea was to go away from bad Linux standard ways of parsing REPL and ARGS, but also not use something so difficult to type as JSON, and stay somewhere in a middle.

The format: ARG ARG ARG, arguments are separated by space. Where ARG could be either named or anonymus argument. named args are like this: a=123 b=hello anonymous args are like this: 100 world begin end Anonymous args are added to the "args" array. Named args become properties of the main object. All values are strings, it is up to user to detect numbers.

Quoteless design: dashes are converted to spaces. Use double dash if you need a dash character:

hello-world 10--5 Far--East => {args:['hello world', '10-5', 'Far-East']}

TODO: allow nested objects/arrays (or it is not needed?)

Shortcuts

To reduce typing even less, you can use shortcuts. Just supply the second argument, called order. JGirl will try to guess what did you mean.

jgirl.from('u=name 2 ph=+0888555 p=zzz', 'user id password phone')

Output:

{ user: 'name', phone: '+0888555', password: 'zzz', id: '2' })

You can even omit the name entirely:

jgirl.from('name 2 zzz', 'user id password')

Output:

{ user: 'name', password: 'zzz', id: '2' })