boundary-match

Regex string match and replace that honors boundaries for targets prepended and/or appended with non-word characters.

Installation

$ npm install --save boundary-match

Usage

const boundaryMatch = require('boundary-match');

boundaryMatch('(HotDog)', '(hotdog)', 'i');
// => [ '(HotDog)', index: 0, input: '(HotDog)' ]

// Q. But Why?
// A. Because, these fail to work as expected:

'(HotDog)'.match(/\b\(hotdog\)\b/i);
// => null
'(HotDog)'.match(new RegExp('\\b\\(hotdog\\)\\b', 'i'));
// => null

// When matching isn't enough... `replace`
let matched = boundaryMatch('Gimme a (HotDog)', '(HOTDOG)', 'i');
boundaryMatch.replace(matched, 'Chili Dog!');
// => Gimme a Chili Dog!

API

boundaryMatch(string, target[, flags])

If the target is found in the string, it returns an Array containing the entire matched target as the first element; an index property for the start of the match; and an input property that contains the entire string. If there were no matches, null is returned.

• string

  • Required : String the string to be searched.

• target

  • Required : String the string to be found. Will be escaped using escape-string-regexp.

• flags

  • Optional : String can have any combination of the following values:
    • i : ignore case

boundaryMatch.replace(match, target)

Returns a String that replaces the found match results with target

• match

  • Required : Array the result of previously calling boundaryMatch

• target

  • Required : String the string that replaces the found match

TODO

• [] Implement other native RegExp flags: g,u, m, y

FYI

• https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/8.0/index.html#sec-assertion

License

ISC © Buster Collings