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regex-to-strings
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Generate strings that match a Regular Expression pattern. Efficiently generate all possible matches, or only the quantity you need.
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regex-to-strings
helps with problems like these!
expand(regExPattern)
The regExPattern
parameter supports three formats:
RegExp
object, like /[a-z]/i
string
that looks like a RegExp
object, like "/[a-z]/i"
string
containing just a Regular Expression pattern, like "[a-z]"
The returned object contains two properties:
count
: The total number of strings that match regExPattern
getIterator()
: A generator that yields strings matched by regExPattern
import { expand } from 'regex-to-strings';
const phoneNumberPattern = /((\(555\) ?)|(555-))?\d{3}-\d{4}/;
const phoneNumberExpander = expand(phoneNumberPattern);
console.log(phoneNumberExpander.count); // 40000000
for (const phoneNumber of phoneNumberExpander.getIterator()) {
console.log(phoneNumber);
// (555)547-4836
// 476-2063
// 467-2475
// (555) 194-2532
// (555)403-4986
// 555-838-9771
// etc.
}
count(regExPattern)
A shortcut to the count
property of expand(regExPattern)
.
import { count } from 'regex-to-strings';
const numStrings = count(/[a-z]{5}/i);
console.log(numStrings); // 380204032
expandN(regExPattern, n)
A shortcut to take n
strings from expand(regExPattern).getIterator()
.
import { expandN } from 'regex-to-strings';
const strings = expandN(/\d{3,5}/, 5);
console.log(strings); // ['84504', '94481', '3971', '69398', '7792']
If the Regular Expression matches fewer than n
strings, the returned array will contain fewer than n
elements.
import { expandN } from 'regex-to-strings';
const strings = expandN(/[abc]/, 100);
console.log(strings); // ['b', 'a', 'c']
expandAll(regExPattern)
A shortcut to get all strings from expand(regExPattern).getIterator()
.
import { expandAll } from 'regex-to-strings';
const strings = expandAll(/\d/);
console.log(strings); // ['6', '5', '0', '2', '7', '9', '4', '3', '1', '8']
regex-to-strings
uses regexp-tree
to parse your Regular Expression, and so the Regular Expression syntax you can use is largely determined by that library. If your pattern is not recognized by regex-to-strings
, try parsing it with regexp-tree
to see if the syntax is supported.
regex-to-strings
also includes extensive positive and negative tests that track which Regular Expression features are supported.
Regular Expressions support many techniques for matching an unlimited number of characters. For example, the following patterns will match as many a
's as possible:
/a*/
/a+/
/a{7,}/
When regex-to-strings
encounters a repetition with no upper bound, it artificially sets an upper bound of 100. This is done for many reasons, chiefly so that a simple pattern like expandAll(/a+/)
will not cause an infinite loop.
This also affects the count
calculation; expand(/a+/).count
returns 100
rather than Infinity
.
regex-to-strings
goes to great lengths to randomize the generated strings. Otherwise the results would be predictable, uninteresting, and probably unhelpful.
// How results might appear without randomization
const strings = expandN(/\d+/, 10);
console.log(strings); // ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
Random selections occur throughout the string generation process to give you a thorough sampling of matching strings.
regex-to-strings
relies heavily on the regexp-tree
Regular Expression parser by Dmitry Soshnikov. Thanks!
FAQs
Expand a regular expression pattern into a set of words
We found that regex-to-strings 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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