RegExp
Parses a regular expression string and returns a new regular expression.
Installation
$ npm install utils-regex-from-string
Usage
var regex = ;
regex( str )
Parses a regular expression string
and returns a new regular expression.
var re =// returns /beep/
Note: provided strings
must be properly escaped.
// Unescaped:re = ;// returns /w+/// Escaped:re = ;// returns /\w+/
Examples
var regex = ;console;// returns /beep/console;// returns /[A-Z]*/console;// returns /\\\//igconsole;// returns /[A-Z]{0,}/console;// returns /^boop$/console;// returns /(?:.*)/console;// returns /(?:beep|boop)/console;// returns /\w+/
To run the example code from the top-level application directory,
$ node ./examples/index.js
Tests
Unit
Unit tests use the Mocha test framework with Chai assertions. To run the tests, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:
$ make test
All new feature development should have corresponding unit tests to validate correct functionality.
Test Coverage
This repository uses Istanbul as its code coverage tool. To generate a test coverage report, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:
$ make test-cov
Istanbul creates a ./reports/coverage
directory. To access an HTML version of the report,
$ make view-cov
License
Copyright
Copyright © 2015. Athan Reines.