escape-delims

Escape and un-escape delimiters in templates. Tested with Lo-Dash, underscore and Handlebars syntax, but could be used with other template engines/syntaxes as well. This is similar to the process used by Yeoman on escaped templates in generators.

Install

Install with npm:

npm i escape-delims --save-dev

Usage

var EscapeDelims = require('escape-delims');

API

EscapeDelims

Create a new instance of EscapeDelims():

• from {Array}: Optionally pass delimiters to use for escaping. Defaults to ['{%%', '%}'].
• to {Array}: Optionally pass delimiters to use for un-escaping. Defaults to ['{%%', '%}'].

var EscapeDelims = require('escape-delims');
var escapeDelims = new EscapeDelims();

Optionally pass the "escape delimiters" to use as an array:

var escapeDelims = new EscapeDelims(['<%%', '%>']);

.escape

Escape the given str, optionally passing a delimiter syntax to use if not defined in the constructor.

• str {String}: The string with delimiters to escape.
• from {Array}: The delimiter syntax to use.

Example:

escapeDelims.escape('<%%= first %><%= last %>', ['<%%', '%>']);
//=> '(;^__^;) first (;\^_\^;)<%= last %>'

.unescape

Un-escape previously escaped delimiters in the given str. Optionally pass the syntax to use if they have not already been defined.

• str {String}: The string with delimiters that need to be escaped.
• to {Array}: The delimiter syntax to use for un-escaping.

Example:

escapeDelims.unescape('(;^__^;) first (;\^_\^;)<%= last %>', ['<%%', '%>']);
//=> '<%= first %><%= last %>'

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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