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regexp-ast-analysis
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This is a library providing functionalities to analyse JavaScript RegExp.
All functions operate on AST nodes produced by regexpp. Characters are parsed by refa.
Install the library using npm:
npm i regexp-ast-analysis
Import the library:
import * as RAA from "regexp-ast-analysis";
Links to the full API documentation:
The 'regexpp' package is a regular expression parser and AST utility. It provides similar functionality to 'regexp-ast-analysis' in terms of parsing regular expressions into an AST and traversing the AST. However, 'regexpp' focuses more on providing a detailed and spec-compliant AST structure.
The 'regexp-tree' package offers a toolkit for working with regular expressions, including parsing, transforming, and optimizing them. It provides similar AST manipulation capabilities as 'regexp-ast-analysis' but also includes additional features like regular expression optimization and code generation.
The 'regex-parser' package is a simple utility for parsing regular expressions into an AST. While it provides basic parsing functionality similar to 'regexp-ast-analysis', it lacks the advanced analysis and traversal features found in 'regexp-ast-analysis'.
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A library for analysing JS RegExp
The npm package regexp-ast-analysis receives a total of 788,377 weekly downloads. As such, regexp-ast-analysis popularity was classified as popular.
We found that regexp-ast-analysis 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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