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README.md
balanced-match
Match balanced string pairs, like {
and }
or <b>
and </b>
. Supports regular expressions as well!
Example
Get the first matching pair of braces:
var balanced = require('balanced-match');
console.log(balanced('{', '}', 'pre{in{nested}}post'));
console.log(balanced('{', '}', 'pre{first}between{second}post'));
console.log(balanced(/\s+\{\s+/, /\s+\}\s+/, 'pre { in{nest} } post'));
The matches are:
$ node example.js
{ start: 3, end: 14, pre: 'pre', body: 'in{nested}', post: 'post' }
{ start: 3,
end: 9,
pre: 'pre',
body: 'first',
post: 'between{second}post' }
{ start: 3, end: 17, pre: 'pre', body: 'in{nest}', post: 'post' }
API
var m = balanced(a, b, str)
For the first non-nested matching pair of a
and b
in str
, return an
object with those keys:
- start the index of the first match of
a
- end the index of the matching
b
- pre the preamble,
a
andb
not included - body the match,
a
andb
not included - post the postscript,
a
andb
not included
If there's no match, undefined
will be returned.
If the str
contains more a
than b
/ there are unmatched pairs, the first match that was closed will be used. For example, {{a}
will match ['{', 'a', '']
and {a}}
will match ['', 'a', '}']
.
var r = balanced.range(a, b, str)
For the first non-nested matching pair of a
and b
in str
, return an
array with indexes: [ <a index>, <b index> ]
.
If there's no match, undefined
will be returned.
If the str
contains more a
than b
/ there are unmatched pairs, the first match that was closed will be used. For example, {{a}
will match [ 1, 3 ]
and {a}}
will match [0, 2]
.
Installation
With npm do:
npm install balanced-match
License
(MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Julian Gruber <julian@juliangruber.com>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.