Globrex

Transform glob strings into RegExp objects.

Turn a *-wildcard style glob ("*.min.js") into a JavaScript regular expression object (/^.*\.min\.js$/).

Installation

npm install globrex

Usage

const globrex = require('globrex');

const r1 = globrex('p*uck');
re.test('pot luck'); // true
re.test('pluck'); // true
re.test('puck'); // true

const r2 = globrex('*.min.js');
r2.test('http://example.com/jquery.min.js'); // true
r2.test('http://example.com/jquery.min.js.map'); // false

const r3 = globrex('*/www/*.js');
r3.test('http://example.com/ww/app.js'); // true
r3.test('http://example.com/www/lib/factory-proxy-model-observer.js'); // true

// Extended globs
const r4 = globToRegExp('*/www/{*.js,*.html}', { extended: true });
r4.test('http://example.com/www/app.js'); // true
r4.test('http://example.com/www/index.html'); // true

API

This package support all advanced features from extglob. To lean more about globbing look here:

• mywiki.wooledge.org/glob
• linuxjournal

globrex(glob, opts)

Type: function
Returns: RegExp

Transform a glob string into an JavaScript RegExp object. Returns a new RegExp instance.

Note: Read more about how to use RegExp.on MDN.

glob

Type: String

Glob string to transform.

opts

Type: Object
Default: { extended: false, globstar: false, strict: false, flags: '' }

Configuration object, that enables/disable different features.

opts.extended

Type: Boolean
Default: false

Whether we are matching so called "extended" globs (like bash) and should support single character matching, matching ranges of characters, group matching, etc.

Note: Interprets [a-d] as [abcd]. To match a literal -, include it as first or last character.

opts.globstar

Type: Boolean
Default: false

When globstar is false the '/foo/*' is translated a regexp like '^\/foo\/.*$' which will match any string beginning with '/foo/'.

When globstar is true, '/foo/*' is translated to regexp like '^\/foo\/[^/]*$' which will match any string beginning with '/foo/' BUT which does not have a '/' to the right of it.

E.g. with '/foo/*' these will match: '/foo/bar', '/foo/bar.txt' but these will not '/foo/bar/baz', '/foo/bar/baz.txt'

Note: When globstar is true, '/foo/**' is equivelant to '/foo/*' when globstar is false.

opts.strict

Type: Boolean
Default: false

Don't be so strict. Be forgiving about /// and make everything after the first / optional. This is how bash-globbing works.

opts.flags

Type: String
Default: ''

RegExp flags (eg "i" ) to pass in to RegExp constructor.

opts.pathsegments

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If true, returns object with both the full RegExp object AND a segments array contaiing a RegExp object for each segment in a path.

Example return value could be:

{
    segments: [ /^foo$/, /^bar$/, /^([^\/]*)$/, '^baz\\.(md|js|txt)$' ],
    full: /^foo\/bar\/.*\/baz\.\{md\,js\,txt\}$/
}

Note: This only makes sense for POSIX paths like /foo/bar/hello.js - not globbing on regular strings.

License

MIT © Terkel Gjervig