codepoint-scanner

UTF-16 code-point based lexical string scanner.

npm install codepoint-scanner --save

You can also download the files manually.

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Usage

var scan = require('codepoint-scanner')

API

scanner.string()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.string()
// => 'Hello world!'

scanner.codepoints()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.codepoints()
// => [ 72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33 ]

scanner.index()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.index()
// => 0

scanner.next()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.next()
// => 101
 
scanner.next()
// => 108
 
scanner.index()
// => 2

scanner.bos()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.bos()
// => true
 
scanner.next()
// => 101
 
scanner.bos()
// => false

scanner.reset()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.next()
// => 101
 
scanner.reset().bos()
// => true

scanner.eos()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.eos()
// => false
 
scanner.index(scanner.length() - 1).eos()
// => true

scanner.$()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.eos()
// => false
 
scanner.$().eos()
// => true

scanner.peek()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.index()
// => 0
 
scanner.peek()
// => [ 72 ]
 
scanner.peek(5)
// => [ 32 ]
 
scanner.peek(5, 7)
// => [ 32, 119 ]
 
scanner.index()
// => 0

scanner.at()

var scanner = scan('Hello world!')
 
scanner.index()
// => 0
 
scanner.at(5)
// => 32

Contributing

SEE: contributing.md

Licenses