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MultiRegExp2

This class gets all matches, with start and end position, within the string, for a given regexp.

From high level the source code is:

  1. Ensuring that each character is captured by a group: eg. /ab(cd)ef/ => /(ab)(cd)(ef)/
  2. Calling exec on the converted regexp with a given string
  3. Summing lengths of previous groups for start position of current group, add length of current group for end position

API

MultiRegexp2(baseRegExp: Regexp)

will setup parsed regexp, returns instance

execForAllGroups(string: string, includeFullMatch: boolean)

will find all matching groups, returns array<{match: string, start: Number, end: Number}>

execForGroup(string: string, group: Number)

will find match for group number, returns {match: string, start: Number, end: Number}

Usage

let regex = /a(?: )bc(def(ghi)xyz)/g;
let regex2 = new MultiRegExp2(regex);

let matches = regex2.execForAllGroups('ababa bcdefghixyzXXXX');
console.log(matches);
// reset to beginning: regex2.regexp.lastIndex = 0;

Will output:

[ { match: 'defghixyz', start: 8, end: 17 },
  { match: 'ghi', start: 11, end: 14 } ]

If you want to include the full match (group 0) then add true as the second parameter.

Also available:

let matches = regex2.execForGroup('ababa bcdefghixyzXXXX', 2);
= { match: 'ghi', start: 11, end: 14 }

Contribution

to compile the module to ES5 run npm install && npm run build && npm run test

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