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matcher

Simple wildcard matching

Useful when you want to accept loose string input and regexes/globs are too convoluted.

Install

$ npm install --save matcher

Usage

const matcher = require('matcher');

matcher(['foo', 'bar', 'moo'], ['*oo', '!foo']);
//=> ['moo']

matcher(['foo', 'bar', 'moo'], ['!*oo']);
//=> ['bar']

matcher.isMatch('unicorn', 'uni*');
//=> true

matcher.isMatch('unicorn', '*corn');
//=> true

matcher.isMatch('unicorn', 'un*rn');
//=> true

matcher.isMatch('rainbow', '!unicorn');
//=> true

matcher.isMatch('foo bar baz', 'foo b* b*');
//=> true

matcher.isMatch('unicorn', 'uni\\*');
//=> false

API

matcher(inputs, patterns)

Accepts an array of input's and pattern's.

Returns an array of of inputs filtered based on the patterns.

matcher.isMatch(input, pattern)

Returns a boolean of whether the input matches the pattern.

input

Type: string

String to match.

pattern

Type: string

Case-insensitive. Use * to match zero or more characters. A pattern starting with ! will be negated.

multimatch - Extends minimatch.match() with support for multiple patterns

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