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extglob
Extended glob support for JavaScript. Adds (almost) the expressive power of regular expressions to glob patterns.
Please consider following this project’s author, Jon Schlinkert, and consider starring the project to show your ❤️ and support.
Install
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save extglob
- Convert an extglob string to a regex-compatible string.
- More complete (and correct) support than minimatch (minimatch fails a large percentage of the extglob tests)
- Handles negation patterns
- Handles nested patterns
- Organized code base, easy to maintain and make changes when edge cases arise
- As you can see by the benchmarks, extglob doesn’t pay with speed for it’s completeness, accuracy and quality.
Heads up!: This library only supports extglobs, to handle full glob patterns and other extended globbing features use micromatch instead.
Usage
The main export is a function that takes a string and options, and
returns an object with the parsed AST and the compiled
.output
, which is a regex-compatible string that can be
used for matching.
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob('!(xyz)*.js'));
Extglob cheatsheet
Extended globbing patterns can be defined as follows (as described by the bash man page):
pattern | regex equivalent | description |
---|---|---|
?(pattern-list) |
(...|...)? |
Matches zero or one occurrence of the given pattern(s) |
*(pattern-list) |
(...|...)* |
Matches zero or more occurrences of the given pattern(s) |
+(pattern-list) |
(...|...)+ |
Matches one or more occurrences of the given pattern(s) |
@(pattern-list) |
(...|...)
[1] |
Matches one of the given pattern(s) |
!(pattern-list) |
N/A | Matches anything except one of the given pattern(s) |
API
extglob
Convert the given extglob
pattern into a
regex-compatible string. Returns an object with the compiled result and
the parsed AST.
Params
pattern
{String}options
{Object}returns
{String}
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob('*.!(*a)'));
//=> '(?!\\.)[^/]*?\\.(?!(?!\\.)[^/]*?a\\b).*?'
.match
Takes an array of strings and an extglob pattern and returns a new array that contains only the strings that match the pattern.
Params
list
{Array}: Array of strings to matchpattern
{String}: Extglob patternoptions
{Object}returns
{Array}: Returns an array of matches
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob.match(['a.a', 'a.b', 'a.c'], '*.!(*a)'));
//=> ['a.b', 'a.c']
.isMatch
Returns true if the specified string
matches the given
extglob pattern
.
Params
string
{String}: String to matchpattern
{String}: Extglob patternoptions
{String}returns
{Boolean}
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob.isMatch('a.a', '*.!(*a)'));
//=> false
console.log(extglob.isMatch('a.b', '*.!(*a)'));
//=> true
.contains
Returns true if the given string
contains the given
pattern. Similar to .isMatch
but the pattern can match any
part of the string.
Params
str
{String}: The string to match.pattern
{String}: Glob pattern to use for matching.options
{Object}returns
{Boolean}: Returns true if the patter matches any part ofstr
.
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob.contains('aa/bb/cc', '*b'));
//=> true
console.log(extglob.contains('aa/bb/cc', '*d'));
//=> false
.matcher
Takes an extglob pattern and returns a matcher function. The returned function takes the string to match as its only argument.
Params
pattern
{String}: Extglob patternoptions
{String}returns
{Boolean}
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
var isMatch = extglob.matcher('*.!(*a)');
console.log(isMatch('a.a'));
//=> false
console.log(isMatch('a.b'));
//=> true
.create
Convert the given extglob
pattern into a
regex-compatible string. Returns an object with the compiled result and
the parsed AST.
Params
str
{String}options
{Object}returns
{String}
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
console.log(extglob.create('*.!(*a)').output);
//=> '(?!\\.)[^/]*?\\.(?!(?!\\.)[^/]*?a\\b).*?'
.capture
Returns an array of matches captured by pattern
in
string
, or null
if the pattern did not
match.
Params
pattern
{String}: Glob pattern to use for matching.string
{String}: String to matchoptions
{Object}: See available options for changing how matches are performedreturns
{Boolean}: Returns an array of captures if the string matches the glob pattern, otherwisenull
.
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
.capture(pattern, string[, options]);
extglob
console.log(extglob.capture('test/*.js', 'test/foo.js'));
//=> ['foo']
console.log(extglob.capture('test/*.js', 'foo/bar.css'));
//=> null
.makeRe
Create a regular expression from the given pattern
and
options
.
Params
pattern
{String}: The pattern to convert to regex.options
{Object}returns
{RegExp}
Example
var extglob = require('extglob');
var re = extglob.makeRe('*.!(*a)');
console.log(re);
//=> /^[^\/]*?\.(?![^\/]*?a)[^\/]*?$/
Options
Available options are based on the options from Bash (and the option names used in bash).
options.nullglob
Type: boolean
Default: undefined
When enabled, the pattern itself will be returned when no matches are found.
options.nonull
Alias for options.nullglob, included for parity with minimatch.
options.cache
Type: boolean
Default: undefined
Functions are memoized based on the given glob patterns and options.
Disable memoization by setting options.cache
to false.
options.failglob
Type: boolean
Default: undefined
Throw an error is no matches are found.
Benchmarks
Last run on December 21, 2017
# negation-nested (49 bytes)
extglob x 2,228,255 ops/sec ±0.98% (89 runs sampled)
minimatch x 207,875 ops/sec ±0.61% (91 runs sampled)
fastest is extglob (by 1072% avg)
# negation-simple (43 bytes)
extglob x 2,205,668 ops/sec ±1.00% (91 runs sampled)
minimatch x 311,923 ops/sec ±1.25% (91 runs sampled)
fastest is extglob (by 707% avg)
# range-false (57 bytes)
extglob x 2,263,877 ops/sec ±0.40% (94 runs sampled)
minimatch x 271,372 ops/sec ±1.02% (91 runs sampled)
fastest is extglob (by 834% avg)
# range-true (56 bytes)
extglob x 2,161,891 ops/sec ±0.41% (92 runs sampled)
minimatch x 268,265 ops/sec ±1.17% (91 runs sampled)
fastest is extglob (by 806% avg)
# star-simple (46 bytes)
extglob x 2,211,081 ops/sec ±0.49% (92 runs sampled)
minimatch x 343,319 ops/sec ±0.59% (91 runs sampled)
fastest is extglob (by 644% avg)
Differences from Bash
This library has complete parity with Bash 4.3 with only a couple of minor differences.
- In some cases Bash returns true if the given string “contains” the
pattern, whereas this library returns true if the string is an exact
match for the pattern. You can relax this by setting
options.contains
to true. - This library is more accurate than Bash and thus does not fail some of the tests that Bash 4.3 still lists as failing in their unit tests
About
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Running Tests
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
$ npm install && npm test
Building docs
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To generate the readme, run the following command:
$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb
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- fill-range:
Fill in a range of numbers or letters, optionally passing an increment
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step
to… more | homepage - micromatch: Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | homepage
Contributors
Commits | Contributor |
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49 | jonschlinkert |
2 | isiahmeadows |
1 | doowb |
1 | devongovett |
1 | mjbvz |
1 | shinnn |
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.
This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.6.0, on December 21, 2017.
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