parse-glob

Parse a glob pattern into an object of tokens.

BREAKING CHANGES in 2.0

• all path-related properties are now on the path object
• all boolean properties are now on the is object
• adds base property

See the properties section for details.

Install with npm

npm i parse-glob --save

• parses 1,000+ glob patterns in 29ms (2.3 GHz Intel Core i7)
• Extensive unit tests (more than 1,000 lines), covering wildcards, globstars, character classes, brace patterns, extglobs, dotfiles and other complex patterns.

See the tests for hundreds of examples.

Usage

var parseGlob = require('parse-glob');
parseGlob('a/b/{c,d}/*.js');

Returns:

{ path:
   { dirname: 'a/b/{c,d}/',
     filename: '*.js',
     basename: '*',
     extname: '.js',
     ext: 'js' },
  is: { glob: true, braces: true, negated: false, globstar: false, 
    dotfile: false, dotdir: false },
  original: 'a/b/{c,d}/*.js',
  pattern: 'a/b/{c,d}/*.js' }

Properties

The object returned by parseGlob has the following properties:

• pattern: the glob pattern
• base: when true is passed as the second argument, a base path is extracted and stripped from pattern. See more below
• original: a copy of the original, unmodified glob pattern
• path: file path segments
  • path.dirname: directory
  • path.filename: filename, including extension
  • path.basename: filename, without extension
  • path.extname: file extension, with dot
  • path.ext: file extension, without dot
• is: an object with boolean information about the glob:
  • is.glob: true if the pattern actually a glob pattern
  • is.negated: true if it's a negation pattern (!**/foo.js)
  • is.globstar: true if the pattern has a double star (**)
  • is.dotfile: true if the pattern should match dotfiles
  • is.dotdir: true if the pattern should match dot-directories (like .git)

base property

The base property is created by taking any leading dirname segments in the pattern that do not contain any glob symbols (!*{}?(|)[]). If a base cannot be extracted, the value of base will be an empty string.

Examples

Without base defined:

var tokens = parseGlob('a/b/{c,d}/*.js');
// tokens.base => 'undefined'
// tokens.pattern => 'a/b/{c,d}/*.js'

With base defined:

var tokens = parseGlob('a/b/{c,d}/*.js', true);
// tokens.base => 'a/b'
// tokens.pattern => '{c,d}/*.js'

The resulting object would be:

{ path:
   { dirname: 'a/b/{c,d}/',
     filename: '*.js',
     basename: '*',
     extname: '.js',
     ext: 'js' },
  is: { glob: true, negated: false, globstar: false, 
    dotfile: false, dotdir: false },
  original: 'a/b/{c,d}/*.js',
  pattern: '{c,d}/*.js',
  base: 'a/b' }

Run tests

Install dev dependencies:

npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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This file was generated by verb on February 17, 2015.