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Usage

var brackets = require('expand-brackets');
brackets(string[, options]);

Params

The main export is a function that takes the following parameters:

  • pattern {String}: the pattern to convert
  • options {Object}: optionally supply an options object
  • returns {String}: returns a string that can be used to create a regex

Example

console.log(brackets('[![:lower:]]'));
//=> '[^a-z]'

API

{%= apidocs("index.js") %}

Options

options.sourcemap

Generate a source map for the given pattern.

Example

var res = brackets('[:alpha:]', {sourcemap: true});

console.log(res.map);
// { version: 3,
//   sources: [ 'brackets' ],
//   names: [],
//   mappings: 'AAAA,MAAS',
//   sourcesContent: [ '[:alpha:]' ] }

POSIX Character classes

The following named POSIX bracket expressions are supported:

  • [:alnum:]: Alphanumeric characters (a-zA-Z0-9])
  • [:alpha:]: Alphabetic characters (a-zA-Z])
  • [:blank:]: Space and tab ([ t])
  • [:digit:]: Digits ([0-9])
  • [:lower:]: Lowercase letters ([a-z])
  • [:punct:]: Punctuation and symbols. ([!"#$%&'()*+, -./:;<=>?@ [\]^_``{|}~])
  • [:upper:]: Uppercase letters ([A-Z])
  • [:word:]: Word characters (letters, numbers and underscores) ([A-Za-z0-9_])
  • [:xdigit:]: Hexadecimal digits ([A-Fa-f0-9])

See [posix-character-classes][] for more details.

Not supported

History

{%= changelog("changelog.md") %}