path-root-regex

What is path-root-regex?

The path-root-regex npm package provides a regular expression for matching the root path of a filesystem path. It is useful for extracting or manipulating parts of paths across different operating systems.

What are path-root-regex's main functionalities?

Extract root path

This feature allows you to extract the root part of a filesystem path using a regular expression. The code sample demonstrates how to use the package to get the root path from a full path string.

const pathRootRegex = require('path-root-regex');
let root = pathRootRegex().exec('/user/docs/Letter.txt')[0];
console.log(root); // Outputs '/' on Unix-like systems

Other packages similar to path-root-regex

path-parse

Similar to path-root-regex, path-parse is used for parsing paths. It provides more comprehensive parsing capabilities, such as extracting the directory, root, base, name, and extension of the path, whereas path-root-regex focuses solely on identifying the root component.

node-path

This package offers utilities for working with file and directory paths. It's more extensive than path-root-regex, providing functions to normalize, join, resolve, and more, in addition to parsing paths.

README

path-root-regex

Regular expression for getting the root of a posix or windows filepath.

You might also be interested in path-root.

Usage

The module exposes a function that must be called to get the regex (modified from the split device regex in the node.js path module);

var pathRootRegex = require('path-root-regex');

console.log(pathRootRegex() instanceof RegExp);
//=> true

See the path-root module for examples.

Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

• is-absolute: Polyfill for node.js path.isAbolute. Returns true if a file path is absolute. | homepage
• parse-filepath: Parse a filepath into an object. Falls back on the native node.js path.parse method if… more | homepage

Contributing

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

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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