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clone-regexp

Clone and modify a RegExp instance

clone-regexp

Clone and modify a RegExp instance

Install

$ npm install --save clone-regexp

Usage

var cloneRegexp = require('clone-regexp');
var re = /[a-z]/gi;
 
cloneRegexp(re);
//=> /[a-z]/gi 
 
cloneRegexp(re) === re;
//=> false 
 
cloneRegexp(re, {global: false});
//=> /[a-z]/i 
 
cloneRegexp(re, {multiline: true});
//=> /[a-z]/gim 
 
cloneRegexp(re, {source: 'unicorn'});
//=> /unicorn/gi 

API

cloneRegexp(regexp, [options])

regex

Type: regexp

RegExp instance to clone.

options

Type: object
Properties: source global ignoreCase multiline sticky unicode

Optionally modify the cloned RegExp instance.

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus

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Keywords

mutate, modify, duplicate, clone, expression, regular, re, regex, regexp

Dependencies (2)

is-supported-regexp-flag, is-regexp

Dependents

regexp-stream-tokenizer, sprockets-directive-loader, iterable-regexp-exec, git-conflicts, broccoli-retain-directive-header-comments, execall