gulp-regex-shuffler

Installation

npm install --save-dev gulp-regex-shuffler

Description

use this gulp plugin to cut and paste text via regular expressions within a file.

Usage

var regexCutAndPaste = require('gulp-regex-shuffler');
 
gulp.task('move-text', function() {
    return gulp.src('*.txt')
        .pipe(regexCutAndPaste(/move this text\n/g, /^/g)
        .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

This will take the text move this text and place it after the line text goes here. e.g.

some line
move this text

Will become

text goes here
some line

API

Syntax

function(cutRegex, pasteRegex[, opts]) {...}

Arguments

cutRegex

• Required: true
• Type: RegExp|String
• Description: regular expression used to define what to cut out. Currently only supports regexps with global modifiers but future support is planned.
• Example: /ab*c/g OR 'ab*c'

pasteRegex

• Required: true
• Type: RegExp|String
• Example: /ab*c/g OR 'ab*c'
• Description: regular expression used to define where to paste. Currently only supports regexps with global modifiers but future support is planned.

opts

• Required: false
• Type: object
• Description: used to configure the plugin, see [options]
• Example: {verbose: true, pasteBefore: true, captureGroup: 1}

Options

opts.verbose

• Default: false
• Type: boolean
• Description: whether to output debug information or not.

opts.pasteBefore

• Default: false
• Type: boolean
• Description: determines whether the text found with the cutRegex argument will be pasted before or after the text found with pasteRegex

opts.captureGroup

• Default: 0
• Type: number
• Description: an integer >= 0. describes the capture group that will be cut from the matching text.

Planned Improvements

• Arbitrary cut and paste objects. Using String(objectToInjectIntoText) on whatever is passed into the first argument to allow for anything to be placed where the pasteRegex specifies
• handle streams (still have to learn a bit more about streams before i complete this. If anyone can lead me to a comprehensive document on this i would be greatful :)
• multiple match, cut and pastes using non-global regexes. e.g. /$\s*\Shello\S\s*^/m would find every string with the text hello in it and paste each one one after the other or all together according to the provided options. There are a few scenarios I'll need to cater for so this change might take a while.