Meteor verbalExpressions v0.2.1

To install the package first you'll need to install meteorite:

# check whether meteorite is installed
$ mrt --version
# if not then
$ npm install -g meteorite

Then download the package

$ mrt add verbalExpressions

or add it to your smart.json file and run mrt

"verbalExpressions": {}

$ mrt

VerbalExpressions v0.1

JavaScript Regular Expressions made easy

VerbalExpressions is a JavaScript library that helps to construct difficult regular expressions.

Other Implementations

You can see an up to date list of all ports in our organization.

• Ruby
• C#
• Python
• Java
• Groovy
• PHP

If you would like to contribute another port (which would be awesome!), please open an issue specifying the language. A repo in the VerbalExpressions organization will be created for it. Please don't open PRs for other languages against this repo.

How to get started

In the browser

<script type="text/javascript" src="VerbalExpressions.js"></script>

On the server (node.js)

Install:

npm install verbal-expressions

Require:

1var VerEx = require("verbal-expressions");

Examples

Here's a couple of simple examples to give an idea of how VerbalExpressions works:

Testing if we have a valid URL

1// Create an example of how to test for correctly formed URLs
2var tester = VerEx()
3            .startOfLine()
4            .then( "http" )
5            .maybe( "s" )
6            .then( "://" )
7            .maybe( "www." )
8            .anythingBut( " " )
9            .endOfLine();
10
11// Create an example URL
12var testMe = "https://www.google.com";
13
14// Use RegExp object's native test() function
15if( tester.test( testMe ) ) alert( "We have a correct URL "); // This output will fire
16else alert( "The URL is incorrect" );
17
18console.log( tester ); // Ouputs the actual expression used: /^(http)(s)?(\:\/\/)(www\.)?([^\ ]*)$/

Replacing strings

1// Create a test string
2var replaceMe = "Replace bird with a duck";
3
4// Create an expression that seeks for word "bird"
5var expression = VerEx().find( "bird" );
6
7// Execute the expression like a normal RegExp object
8var result = replaceMe.replace( expression, "duck" );
9
10alert( result ); // Outputs "Replace duck with a duck"

Shorthand for string replace:

1var result = VerEx().find( "red" ).replace( "We have a red house", "blue" );
2alert( result ); // Outputs "We have a blue house"

API documentation

You can find the API documentation at the wiki pages.

A little word for a big help

I'd like to promote a special thank-you to Ben Nadel for his great article about extending native JS objects

Contributions

Clone the repo and fork: git clone https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions.git.

Pull requests are warmly welcome!

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