changer

changer reads in files and modifies them according to rules that you specify. It can be used to automatically modify code, change text, or anything else.

Installation

npm install changer

To use changer you need to create some rules. A rule is a just a function, and it returns the (possibly modified) line of text. Here's an example rule:

var replaceEvens = function( lineNumber, text ) {
    if( lineNumber % 2 == 2 )
        text.replace( "Hello", "Goodbye" );
 
    return text;
}
 
var commentOut = function( lineNumber, text ) {
    if( lineNumber > 50 && lineNumber < 60 )
        text = "// " + text;
 
    return text;
}
 
exports.rules = {
    replace: replaceEvens,
    commentOut: commentOut
}

Then in another file, we can apply the rules to some files

var change = require("changer").change,
    rules = require("./ruleSet");
 
// An array of filepaths
var files = [
    'file1.txt'
    'C:/file2.h'
    'includes/file3.cpp'
];
 
// Batch process the files
for( var iFile=0; iFile<files.length; ++iFile ) {
    change( rules.replaceEvens, files[iFile] );
    change( rules.commentOut, files[iFile] );
}
 
// Do one more for good measure
change( rules.replaceEvens, "anotherfile.csv" );